07-29-2006, 09:06 AM
Thiudareiks Flavius,
I have to say that I am much closer to your position that Vortigern's. Howecer, I would like to make a couple of comments about place names. River names are particularly conservative and seem to last despite new occupants of a land. In some cases in England river names seem to predate even the British. I'll try and get some examples from my notes. Place names, too tend to last. you do even get examples of places that have an old British name to which has been added an Old English name which means the same thing, an example, I think, is Breedon Hill, which simple means hill, hill, hill in different languages. If there had been the continuity that some people believe why would they give it the same name over and over again?
Raedwald
I have to say that I am much closer to your position that Vortigern's. Howecer, I would like to make a couple of comments about place names. River names are particularly conservative and seem to last despite new occupants of a land. In some cases in England river names seem to predate even the British. I'll try and get some examples from my notes. Place names, too tend to last. you do even get examples of places that have an old British name to which has been added an Old English name which means the same thing, an example, I think, is Breedon Hill, which simple means hill, hill, hill in different languages. If there had been the continuity that some people believe why would they give it the same name over and over again?
Raedwald
Paul Mortimer
