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But keep in mind that according to some recend discoveries, there still were saxons in roman britain, even before the massive invasion of the VII-VIII centuries led by the two famous anglish brothers (i can't remeber their names now), so it isn't so surprising if you think about this...they were invited as ''foederati'' (you know how many times romans did this with the germans...the same happened with the visigoths in Aqvitania) to stay there, with the only duty to help the romans in their wars.
It's interesting the fact that at least two romance languages developed in pre-germanic and post-roman britain (some linguists label them as ''atrian'' and ''trinovant'')...probabily they were as the gallo-romance languages...latin implanted into a celtic substrate...i wonder how they would have developed without the germanic linguistical substitution.
However, at least half of the latinisms of english are due to the romani-britannic languages, while the other half due to William the Conqueror's conquest of Britain.
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