08-10-2006, 11:27 PM
Quote:the possibilty that much of southern England may have been subject to flooding and desease as a result, which chased a lot of the population out and that the fleeing nobility crept out to Brittany etc.(1) It so seems that most British that went to Brittany seem to come from Wales and not from the eastern Lowlands.
My questions are ;
(1) is this a serious postulation ?
(2) if so this lack leadership would make it easy for an incombant or incoming German elite to get a grip on any subject population left behind.
(3) it may also leave the way for a mass/sizeable influx into an empty(ish) land from both east and west.
(2) We have no clue what kind of leadership existed and what remained. If the newcomers organised themselves around already present military commands (such as the later Bavarians started out from a Germanic force in Roman service of the Regensburg legionary fort.
(3) Since (1) does not seem to have applied, nor does (3).
I also keep reading about plagues that seem to hit only the British while the Anglo-Saxons seem to be immune for... :evil:
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
