It depends on what they were assimilating into. One of the theories which seems to be backed up by both archaeology and genetics is that the Germanic migrants were coming into a largely empty landsca… (View Post)

Apologies but you mistake my point. The migrations were not a myth. The idea that they were an 'invasion' or a conquest is a myth - in my view. We know that there were large scale migration… (View Post)

Your understanding of late Roman and early medieval history is infantile. Romano-British is not a term differentiating classes or groupings within Southern Britain. It refers to everyone who lived in… (View Post)

Not at all. And in much the same way, the 'invasions' were a myth in the Early Medieval Period just as much as they are now. (View Post)

Utterly wrong. For a start there was no distinction between 'Celts' and Romano-British. By the time of the Germanic migrations they were the same thing. Secondly all the evidence is that th… (View Post)