Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

[Alanus]

I think we can have a very different view from Britain looking at different regions...
I support Laycock's views on post-roman Britain. It's not for him a question of culture - be it either celtic british, roman or germanic - but a question of regional identities which didn't "re-emerged" but still existed under roman rule.

For the chariot thing, Im quite suspicious. Snyder mentions in An Age of Tyrants some finds that belonged to a chariot in Dinas Emrys, maybe someone got the excavation report to bring some light on this?

A few of Breton genealogies can be guessed to be taken from older sources. That was at least stated by Léon Fleuriot about a name such as "Outham Senis", beeing a very old version of Eudaf Hen. Hagiographic sources are also complicated to use, but some can be used with care, essentially the Vita Samsoni of Life of St Samson, of 7th or 8th century date and the Vita Pauli Aureliani of 9th century date but with some interesting material. A lot of progress have been done in the study of those sources in the last decades by people such as André-Yves Bourgès or Bernard Merdrignac.

Agreed. We would expect the British language to continue and evolve under Roman rule, simply because the Britons had the greater population and language is retained by dominent numbers.

I, too, noticed Snyder's reference to a chariot found in Dinas Emrys. But was it really a chariot? Or was it a cart or carriage? Or was it a ceremonial item? Doubtful that the Britons were still fighting chariot-stlye in the 4th or 5th century.

Good to know that there is a realistic sub-base to the Breton genealogies. Thanks for that. But what are we to think of such corrupted wording as "John Lex"? The pedigrees are puzzling. If they were reworked in the medieval period, as Vortigern Studies notes (with good reason), then what accounts for the nuptial links that point to the collusion of dynasties? This is not a perceived "Germanic" or other ethnic link, but appears as a wedding of families into a larger whole. Why would the medieval scribes create these bondings? :?