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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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 …
Sidonius Apollinaris on Saxon raiders along the south-western coast of Gaul, written c. 480: http://www.loebclassics.com/view/sidonius-letters/1936/pb_LCL420.431.xml …pic.twitter.com/BZ4Oaj97Re
Where is the Procopius quote from?
History of the Wars, VIII.xx.7–10, trans. H.B. Dewing, Procopius, Vol. V (London, 1962), pp.252–5, via http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/anglo-saxon-finds-france-africa.html … :)
@caitlinrgreen We certainly have evidence of Saxon communities in Ouistreham, Hambye, Port-en-Bessin, etc...
@calongeditor Yes, the Bessin Saxons still being mentioned into the 9thC!
@caitlinrgreen Perhaps cross-Channel traders displaced or subsumed by the westward advance of the Norman dukes into the Cotentin...
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