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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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This map show the situation around 369, after the Britannia was retaken by Theodosius the Elder(father of the emperor Theodosius I), when the land was almost lost due to a mutiny and attacks of Caledoni and Saxons. Than Britain was reorganized in 5 provinces.
There is an error however in the map, because it was the Litus Saxonicus and not Limes Saxonicus. The Litus Saxonicus was a series of fortress and garrisons to protect South of England by Attacks fron Saxons raiders.
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Wait...wait, even if my ydna is R1b-L21 i'm still a Roman!![]()
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