Britain, the Byzantine Empire & the Saxon 'Heptarchy': a L9thC Arabic description of Britain http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/y94Zs3zzvF
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Fwiw, Attleborough=Old English 'Attila's fort', & the 15thC Latin Waldef makes Attila (Atle, Athla) king of Norfolk+ruler of Attleborough :)
Considering the two parts of the name "Attila" are endemic to Germanic languages (since the name is Gothic, probably not Oghur Turkic) (1/2)
Can we actually associate these placenames with Attila? It's "Atta" + "ila" from Gothic. Maenchen-Helfen associates the fort with (2/3)
AEtla, Bishop of Dorchester. (3/3).
My reading of him is that he's associating it with the name Ætla, not the specific bishop named that :) Fwiw, is not impossible both Ætla >
> of Dorchester & the other Ætlas are named ultimately after Attila as not OE name, but whether all were named consciously... Hmm! ;)
Yeah it's a good question. I've often wondered if Bede's reference to the Saxons burning and pillaging across Britain actually refers (1/2)
To Attila's invasion of Gaul and he wrote in 'Saxons' and 'Britain' instead. (2/2).
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