The English and the Celts - no genocide?

[Robert Vermaat]

Do you have any refs. or dates for the Fulda monk? He's obviously writing at a date much later than the migration period but it would be nice to learn more about it. Is it from the Life of St Leofgyth?

Hi harry,
I forgot I wrote about this myself until I looked for the quote in Google :oops:

Rudolf of Fulda, writing before AD 865, wrote in his Translatio sancti Alexandri about Saxons migrating from Britain to the continent in AD 531. Though the information is very vague, it seems to find an echo with Procopius (ca. AD 550), who reported accounts from a Frankish mission to Constantinople in AD 553, who told of all kinds of people migrating from Britain to the continent. Though the distance and language would account for the strangeness of the reports, it might signify British migrations and Saxon re-migration to Gaul in the late 520s and early 530s.
http://www.vortigernstudies.org.uk/artsou/gildwhen.htm