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NodweddWales & the Britons 350-1064
An immensely detailed and thorough study of seven centuries of British kingdoms and their neighbours Not the easiest book to score, this is the first part of a history of Wales and, for many people, it will be a specialist reference text. I got a huge amount from it (hence the 5*) but that does… Darllen rhagor
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A chronology of i-stem declensional collapse in Old English: Proto-Germanic *awiz, English sheep terms & phonological change
Originally posted on Old English Roots:
Abstract Proto-Indo-European had an i-stem athematic noun class which survived into early Germanic languages. By literate Old English i-stems had almost completely disintegrated. Examination of sound changes, particularly with regard to the word for ‘ewe’, might help date this collapse. There might also be a correlation with changes in… -
Britannia – the failed state: Part 5 – Anglo-Saxon settlement and British tribal areas
The Anglo-Saxon settlement stories for Kent, Sussex and Wessex have too much in common to ring entirely true. Nevertheless, a wholesale rejection of them might still be unwise. Kent According to Gildas the British invited the Germanic tribes in to help them with raiders from the North. It has long been assumed that these were… Darllen rhagor
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