Fwiw, another article on language/place-name change in the post-Roman era that I'd recommend is this by Alaric Hall on place-name instability :)https://www.academia.edu/2977260/The_Instability_of_Place-Names_in_Anglo-Saxon_England_and_Early_Medieval_Wales_and_the_Loss_of_Roman_Toponymy …
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Two more interesting articles on Britons & Anglo-Saxons, by Alex Woolf (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/alexwoolf/Apartheidandeconomics.pdf …) & Heinrich Härke (https://www.academia.edu/1178275/Anglo-Saxon_immigration_and_ethnogenesis._Medieval_Archaeology_55_2011._1-28 …)
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This is well worth a look too, fwiw :) Hildegard Tristram, ‘Why don't the English speak Welsh?’ http://www.hildegard.tristram.de/media/tristram_manchester_30-07-07.pdf …
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These are all great resources. Two down, a couple more to go. Since they’re all a few years old, how have the more recent genetic studies on the population figured into all this? I think it showed that AS intermarried with, not replaced, native pop?
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Only one ancient DNA study I can think of, but it did indeed show this :)
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I'm trying to read this---it's all very good. usually don't "read" long articles, need audio, but this is so interesting!
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I think it's very well written, much more engaging than some frankly near-impenetrable stuff on the topic I've read! :)
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I read 5x slower than normal/brain-accident, still didn't read it all, but I was fascinated. and it was pdf, my fav format. thank you!
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If the Roman Empire has lasted quite a bit longer in Britain, we might be speaking a Latin-tongue, had indoor plumbing, used coins and all sort of nice things. but, no...
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A question I ask myself almost every day
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A man who says “concatenation.” Swoon.
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