The English and the Celts - no genocide?

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However, it does nothing to explain the abandonment of British cities in the East, though. ... And over a rolling-period of 450-500 which predated the Justinian plague.

Hi Ambrosius,

I've only really read about York and Lincoln and then, only is so much as they related to the surrounding areas. Yes, these cities declined much earlier than mid 6th cent. Here, Bede hints at the Humbrenses, a people of who we know nothing, but possibly living either side of the Humber. The name gets lost, as a people, by the time we talk in terms of the Deirans and those from Lindsey. Kevin Leahy writes of defensive measures in north Lincolnshire but, whether these are British defences against Pictish raids, or defences against Germanic raids, or Germanic defenses against Picts or other germanic speakers, we simply don't know.


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Harry Amphlett