borys68 wrote:
Ahoj!
The wild bogs of Albion were not very deeply Romanised. It is true that the most developed parts of Roman Britain - the south-east, were thoroughly Germanised, so any Latin speaking pockets there were destroyed. Anybody know anything about Latin use in Britain c.350-400?
It was a total cultural replacement of most of what is today England after the fall of Roman Britain. From what I read of Britain of this time period it
was about as Latinized as Gaul was. The local language was Brythonic; which was destroyed totally and had almost no effect on modern english which is a West
German offshot. In a sense English sounds like the way German did before the 12th century sound shift. Gaelic Irish and Scottish, Danish and Norman French
had way more of an impact on modern English in terms of loan words, grammer, etc.
borys68 wrote:Brythonic speakers a type of celtic. Brittianny is were a lot of the Roman British ended up, the name of the region and some cultural and language artifacts can be found in the French of there to this day.
Still, all three parts of Roman Britain not conquered by the Saxons and Angles were Celtic speaking. And the refugees to the continent also must had been partly/largely Celtic speaking as well.
borys68 wrote:
Ahoj!
All in all, I do not believe a Roman Hibernia and the Limes across Lanark would change anything much. The insular provinces were simply too poor, distant, primitive to have an impact.
The Irish monastic brand of Christianity looks odd only when viewed through a purely late Western Christian perspective. If one looks at it from an Eastern Christian perspective, the predominance of monasteries is not so unusual.
Borys
The limes father north might have shifted the natural boundary of England. Roman historic divisions lasted for years and years. Note that Roman Limes along the Rhine is a cultural break, ditto else where. Also Roman Hibernia might never be conquered at all by the Germanic invaders and we would see England re-Christianized not from Gaul but from Hibernia in later years.
England had lots of monasteries before Henry of the many wives decided to use them to refill his treasury.
Michael
