The English and the Celts - no genocide?

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I suspect that tribal grouping and identification was not so rigid in those days as we try to make national identification today ...

Hi Ron,

Yes, quite.

I found another version of Rudolf of Fulda's account.

Whereas Rudolf states that they are said to have emanated from the Angles in Britannia, from whence they sailed across the sea and landed at Hadeln in search of new homes, Widukind of Corvey states that his information has been handed down verbally. According to this, the Saxons were an offspring of the Danes and Norsemen. Others made the Saxons the descendants of the army of Alexander the Great. What was certain, stated Widukind, ‘is that the Saxons arrived in their country by ship and first landed at a place called Hadolaun’—the area around Hadeln on the left bank of the mouth of the Elbe.

What I find interesting is that the Saxons of the 9th cent are still wondering about where the saxons came from. The romans, the gallo romans, the british and even the english have written about them for centuries. Yet they don't seem convinced, quite rightly in my opinion.

best

Harry Amphlett