What happened to the people who called themselves Romans after the Fall of Rome?

[Wulfhere]

Brian Sykes offeres an explanation why. First of all Romans withdrew from England before the Saxon invasion. Secondly, coming from deep Germania, not even at the limes of the civilised world, they were just too primitive to adopt the Roman laws and institutions. Unlike in the case of Goths, their barbaric leaders probably never even saw a city, and spent much of their time drinking beer in their halls and hunting wild boars in the woods.

Not a case of "too primitive", but rather of having retained cultural integrity. Of all the Germanic invaders of the Roman Empire, the Anglo-Saxons were the only ones who were still Pagan.

[Kazimiera]

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