The Anglo-Saxons abroad? Some AS finds from France,Switzerland+Africa(!) — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/anglo-saxon-finds-france-africa.html …pic.twitter.com/ZQmMgWrITP
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One possible explanation for Anglo-Saxon finds on French coast is ASs moving there from Britain—see Procopius, 6thC:pic.twitter.com/bdFCzYRutC
A good short discussion of some of the Saxon & Anglo-Saxon finds on the Gallic coast available in French here :)https://www.academia.edu/1146646/La_présence_saxonne_et_anglo-saxonne_sur_le_littoral_de_la_Manche …
Other finds from Herpes-en-Charente are in the BM, incl these 6thC Anglo-Saxon brooches: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?place=34947&plaA=34947-3-2&sortBy=imageName …pic.twitter.com/PRWS3E0uw0
Most southerly Anglo-Saxon find in France is this 6thC cruciform brooch, from the south-east at Castelnaudary, Audepic.twitter.com/7dZs5UCAA3
NB, lies on a major overland routes between Med+Atlantic, Carcassonne Gap—see also Anglian slaves at Rome in 6thC?pic.twitter.com/eDGw2BISu6
Procopius mentions that some Angles were present at Constantinople in the mid6thC as part of a Frankish delegation:pic.twitter.com/ERQatapA9r
Merovingians claiming rule over Britain? That's a new one to me!
Yes, absolutely---see full quote with reference on the blog post page! :) Fascinating, no?! :)
Very! The Age of Migration for sure. Cheeky Merovingian though -- "I let a few settle, so sure, I own their country."
A 6thC square-headed brooch of Kentish type, found in the early medieval cemetery at Herpes-en-Charente, SW Francepic.twitter.com/WYuiG5oMkk
Procopius in the mid-6thC on Anglo-Saxons from Britain who had settled in France+subsequently visited Constantinoplepic.twitter.com/M2uZvpwpJB
He seems confused when he says the Franks allow them to settle and take over the island
The sense is that they are migrating to Gaul and giving their allegiance to the Frankish king, and through this they are giving >
> the Frankish king legal title/lordship over their former lands over the sea in Britain :)
(or at least that's the normal interpretation!)
'An early entente cordiale? Cross-Channel connections in the Anglo-Saxon period', by Martin Welch: http://www.ai-journal.com/articles/abstract/10.5334/ai.0410/ …pic.twitter.com/WpQKbM5hTj
There was no issue btwn France and Britain before 1066. We shared queens
And even kings in the 6thC, if one accepts the evidence for Merovingian control in southern England ;)
TBH France does not claim this #sshh dear in these days of manic Brexit you are going to get pilloried
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