I'm trying to post this in Random in the Huns but I can't because of the broken Captcha, so I'm posting it here. Feel free to move this to the correct thread.
naturalplastic wrote:
Skimmed over it. Didnt see much evidence to the counter what I thought before- which is what I said above.
There is little evidence either way. As Caitlyn Green herself said, it's "idle speculation."
Most of the evidence is already known in the field. What drives its reinterpretation here and by others in the field is archaeological finds, such as cicada brooches discovered in England that are dated to the mid-5th century (the period under discussion), and whose design is associated with Pannonia (a region encompassing Hungary and environs) and the Black Sea region, both of which were at the center of the Huns' power. Since she wrote her post, there have been more such finds in England:
https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/statu ... 6918174725Also, the kings of Kent, in SE England, from the Middle Ages claimed descent from a man named Octa, who is possibly linked to the Ottar from the Norse sagas and from there to the Hunnic ruler Octar, who was the uncle of Attila. This was mentioned in the article.
It's clear that the situation in Anglo-Saxon England was much more complex than commonly assumed!
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