According to 14thC prose Brut, 1st inhabitants of Britain=33 Syrian women who arrived by sea https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GGh3qeEuN1IC&pg=PA73&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/C2bT6MZ9VH
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Gormund's African troops were said to have played a pivotal role in helping the Saxons conquer Britain, see furtherhttps://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z40yCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA261&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q&f=false …
Fwiw, Gormund+6thC African troops=part of standard version of English history into 15thC... http://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/Man4MedievalVC~4~4~228956~108131:Gurmonde-besieges-Chichester# …pic.twitter.com/1sjzarITw3
See further https://archive.org/stream/prosebrutdevelop00mathuoft#page/8/mode/2up … ; of course, worth comparing these medieval concepts of past w/ some modern oneshttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/658324413335666688 …
Also worth noting again that medieval authors quite happy to portray 9thC Viking warriors as Saracens/Muslims...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/754612140556845056 …
Similarly, by mid-late13thC story circulating that Thomas Becket's mother=a Saracen princess http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=53379 …pic.twitter.com/7J0VMPFqg3
Story=early but obv hagiography/romance; however, worth noting once more that were some Muslims in 12thC Englandhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/739854170879107074 …
A Continental depiction of Albina & her sisters arriving in Britain; Anglo-Norman prose Brut, 15thC (BL Royal 19 C IX, f.8): http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=40511 …pic.twitter.com/Sv73QNrLtm
'In the noble land of Syrie th[er] was a noble kyng and mighty and a man of grett reno[u]n...' — the start of the Prose Brut Chronicle of England, mid-15thC, MS Harley MS 1568, f. 1: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/04/popular-history-for-an-english-audience-the-english-prose-brut-chronicle.html …pic.twitter.com/Gbdf8U92kn
Any idea who the 'Isembard' character is supposed to be? Or is he purely fictional?
He seems to be fictional, alas, or at least is said to be impossible to identify:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=43BD6dq9RAIC&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false …
That's what I suspected. Thanks for the link!
Were Gormund's lot Vandals perhaps? Justinian triumphs in Tunisia 532
Depends whether legendary, though there is at least one person in Ireland that is prob from N.Africa?https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/761174468530171904 …
do you know Sam Newton? He has lots of interesting ideas about this http://wuffings.co.uk
it seems to me, that exotic foreigners who have most certainly come to Britain, had a extravagant back story made for them.
Definitely one possible explanation, esp as we're def ppl from N.Africa in early medieval Britain, as you say! :)
Were they ethnically Negroes or Berbers and what happened to their descendants?
no idea. Look at Paon de Roet, his wife had dna not found anywhere in Europe.
Any research about what was the eventual fate of Gormund and his successors.What happened to histroops?
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