This is a great article by Bryan Ward-Perkins & well worth a read! I have fond memories of discussing this with him :)https://twitter.com/Medievalists/status/965920259747254273 …
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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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