03-29-2010, 02:01 PM
Hello Conal. I am not sure. Never really thought about it, to be honest. I tend to use Bachrach as a source and can check back through that. The Alans were hated in areas of Armorica,,as per cutting out the tongues of the Alan wimmin. THats for sure. Give me a couple of days while I "dredge". Right now I would comment that the Alans seemed to have been very good at making good marriages and wedding the right sort of gentry! To my mind, this is where the spread comes from. Not nearly as dramatic as "mighty conquest"! AS people, they didnt seem to have the love of paperwork, title deeds,wills, infantry skills that the germanics types did. So, they werent that good at holding territory,..in all its many meanings..unless they married it.
Roderic Wout..
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