01-11-2021, 01:21 PM
I think we do agree!
@Franks - I think there were no disctintive feature between these groups, as they seem to have been inclusive of newcomers and very mobile themselves.
We see 'Franks' in Drenthe (Netherlands) during the 2nd and 3rd c., then along the Rhine during the 4th, until they end up in Belgium and N France during the 5th. All the while 'moving' a hundred miles (and leavuing peple behind) but not showing typical houses etc. to indicate a culktural (or ethnical!) homegenous tribe.
The Alamanni were 'older' and are concentrated in SW german hill country, so they seem more homegeneous.
The Saxons were often coastal dwellers but even the Anglo-Saxons of the 8th century clearly recognised their own original subdivisions of Saxons, Anglians, Jutes, Danes, half-Danes and Frisians - most often only recognisable from a geographical name (Pliny's Frisians were no longer there by that tiome).
@Franks - I think there were no disctintive feature between these groups, as they seem to have been inclusive of newcomers and very mobile themselves.
We see 'Franks' in Drenthe (Netherlands) during the 2nd and 3rd c., then along the Rhine during the 4th, until they end up in Belgium and N France during the 5th. All the while 'moving' a hundred miles (and leavuing peple behind) but not showing typical houses etc. to indicate a culktural (or ethnical!) homegenous tribe.
The Alamanni were 'older' and are concentrated in SW german hill country, so they seem more homegeneous.
The Saxons were often coastal dwellers but even the Anglo-Saxons of the 8th century clearly recognised their own original subdivisions of Saxons, Anglians, Jutes, Danes, half-Danes and Frisians - most often only recognisable from a geographical name (Pliny's Frisians were no longer there by that tiome).
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
