@Karanthir @MariusHollenga > 'lack' of 5th-6thC textual evidence for Britons in east often treated similarly too, fwiw? (Btw, on 5th-6thC >
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It's nearly impossible to know what any pre-modern illiterate people called themselves, but you can ask how >
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> literate societies knew what to call them. Was it from the people themselves or part of a tradition?
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Can't disagree! Just worry that suggestion=prob tradition driven by conclusions already drawn re: emptiness of >
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> 5-6thC Frisia (on which cf. arch invisibility of 5-6thC Britons & ppl of N Gaul?) & didn't in any case work>
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> for Procopius, who has Frisians in non-traditional locale & seems to be working from 6thC oral reports! :)
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But that is a problem for locating Frisians in Frisia itself in 5th-6thC >
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True! However, it nonetheless suggests that ethnonym Frisian was still current in that era, which is arguably a >
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> point of considerable significance! ;) & in absence of any evidence for them in 4thC Britain, is suggestive :)
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