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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @MariusHollenga
But that is a problem for locating Frisians in Frisia itself in 5th-6thC >
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> Doesn't say how long Frisians had been in Britain. But intriguing that they're going back to Francia and >
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being settled in 'deserted' parts of kingdom. Could be Frisians resettling 'empty landscape' of Frisia?
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Replying to @Karanthir @MariusHollenga
Not impossible, tho' usual interpretation is that settlement on continent is by Angles on French coast from >
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>Pas-de-Calais southwards (cf.brooches etc there), hence why Frankish delegation took Angles to Constantinople...
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @MariusHollenga
I will bow to people who know more than me on that one.
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Replying to @Karanthir @MariusHollenga
Oh, I dunno, 6thC Frisian reverse migration from Britain to continent = intriguing idea! And if we stop arguing >
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> about Frisia then I may end up thinking about the current political situation.... :-/ urgh!
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @MariusHollenga
Definitely happy to keep talking about Frisia, but would be more comfortable in the 8thC than the 6th!
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Replying to @Karanthir @MariusHollenga
8thC Frisia is indeed fascinating! :)
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