Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

[Conal]

Conal. No insult intended in any way and nothing directed at yourself. Its been a pleasure yacking with you and, I am sure, will be in the future. I am not "anti Celtic" in any way, be sure of it. What I am against is the hi jacking of a good thread or forum by myopic groups with one agenda. There has already been adverse comment to the effect that "no more arfer" is wanted and \\I think that is right. To then have it replaced by "Arthur supported Cardiff City" just ruins things. We ve all seen what happened to other sites!!

No offence has been taken as I am open to arguement on the Alanic lines but I feel that where you have an attested "Celtic/British" dominated area the place names, which may have a Celtic language derivative, should be considered as well as potential interloper origins. I don't see that as high-jacking but merely pointing out what to me should be an obvious observation that place names or personal names including Alan in them are just as likely, if not more so, to have a Celtic language root as to an Alanic one when encountered in a place which came to be known as Brittany.

That is why I asked about the placement of Alanic tribes in Gaul as this would be an indicator of impact. I had read more than once, that the Alans were settled "in" Armorica but it turns out that there is no evidence to that effect but possible evidence that even their presence as police from adjacent lands was rebelled agianst. This, to me, points to a resistance to Alanic influence leading me to question why would Alanic names permiate Armorican society.

My next port of call in researching this is to look at the impact on place names where they were known to have been settled as this will give an indicator of the likely impact they may have had outside these settled areas. If the area arous Orleans is not Alanisized then it is unlikley to have happended elsewhere. I do have a book on my wants list which may help but as usual I spend the mony elsewhere :?

On the point of javein armed light cavalry, this strikes me as very Roman and not at all steppes originative. If later Breton cavlary were thus armed isn't it unlikley that they were influences by Sarmation tactics?