Submitted by MagicRaptor t3_xwxaqx in history
ConsitutionalHistory t1_irbvakv wrote
Forgive me but I'm not sure where you're looking. There's tremendous historical as well as archeological evidence for many migrations to the British Isles. Within recorded history there's been the Norman invasion and the introduction of early French to the indigenous language and the Vikings with King Cnut before that. From an archeological perspective, you may find the below interesting...it's an article I literally came across just today during lunch. Through the work of modern DNA research, the British Isles were visited and settled literally countless times by any number of peoples and cultures.
MagicRaptor OP t1_irc0bdl wrote
Yes, of course there have been numerous migrations to and from Britain over the centuries, but the one I'm concerned with is specifically the Anglo Saxon migration in the early medieval period and how it seems to have both occurred in great enough numbers to leave a sizable linguistic and genetic footprint, yet at the same time small enough numbers to have left what is essentially a negligible footprint in the history and archaeology. I'm just trying to make sense of that discrepancy.
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