This summer I read the phenomenal @hbdchick "cover to cover" ^_^. Compelling arguments re: history and present. Style hilarious. Follow her!
@trkiehl yes, i've seen that before. maybe pre-franks? dunno! the idea remains speculative, but it's still an interesting one!
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@hbdchick Genetics should be abl clarify. Idea plausible that NWB got Germanic upper caste in 2./3. centAD, then whole thing became "Franks" -
@hbdchick This orig. settlement area swampy, lots rivers, need drainage;German Ostsiedlung very strong Flemish/Frisian element, Western plow -
@trkiehl ...for quite a long time into the medieval period: https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/trees-and-frisians/ … more cattle farmers than anything else. -
@hbdchick NWB perhaps proto-civilized, less clannish than their new Germanic nobility; hence Franks and their new marriage laws, manorialism -
@trkiehl i doubt it. the germanics all seems to have been clannish (kindred-based) pre-christianity. and the outbreeding came from the...
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