09-05-2006, 02:11 AM
There was probably a power lack in the regions where the AS first settled. Romanised areas, with foederati charged of the defense for years and years. Part of the population would had already been germanised. In the West, it was different. In the North, the Brythonic elites were defeated because having spend more time fighting themselves. When Urien was killed, his allies rushed his kingdom, and the Bernicians recovered their strenght.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert