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More Merovingian- Kingdom of Soissons
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Quote:The Language spoken in Britain in the half of the V century was a Romance language, after few years it vanished, totally vanished, no more existing, not even a single word survived in Britain of the Language of Caesar ....A whole civilization vanished in few decades and the Saxons were not Nazi mass murderers!

It was only one of the languages. British latin did survive however until the late 6th century as a spoken language as demonstrated by the study of contemporary inscriptions - a large corpus of them.

The Romans had a lasting influence on the early medieval kingdoms in western Europe and roman military titles were still beeing used - see for exemple the titles of tribunus and protector used by the late 5th and 6th century elite of gaelic origin in Dyfed in south-western Wales.

Bede does record a standart "called by the romans the tuffa" preceding the 7th century northumbrian king Edwin on his visits to his estates.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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More Merovingian- Kingdom of Soissons - by Agraes - 03-03-2014, 10:14 PM

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