Terp Tritzum

[Robert Vermaat]

I said probably with the Frisiavones, a lot of tribes were determined by whether they had or hadn't signed a treaty with Rome and whom the treaty was signed with, but again I said this doesn't have to be true to distinguish them. They could have simply been another tribe or another name.

Indeed. It’s even possible they are same tribe.

You cannot truly call the Chauchi "Proto-Saxons" because you have to remember that these were confederations - tribes joined and left them all the time.

I did not come up with the concept. Anyway, you’re thinking of tribal identity, but the reason to call them ‘proto-Saxons’ is functional - because they raided the Roman coast as the Saxons did later.

I'm going to reply about Merovech in another thread, that one sounds like a new discussion about the Franks in Gaul.