Theory that \'Celts\' are a myth

[authun]

Yes it happened to some extent - but dominating warrior bands arriving (just as did the Normans) rather than a full scale genocidic movement across England wiping out the previous occupants. There is no evidence of that at all. Gildas and Bede have a lot to account for...

Or rather, the people who interpreted Gildas and Bede in that way have a lot to account for. Bede doesn't claim they were wiped out and even under Aethelfrith who 'conquered more territories from the Britons [than any other]', he states that they were either made tributary or driven out. I have never understood why so many historians ignored the 'made tributary' part especially when in his summary of the Present State of the English Nation, he writes that Britons continue to both live under their own kings and under the subjection of the english.

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