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card_zerotoday at 7:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

Those forts: https://www.roman-britain.co.uk/military/roman-frontier-syst...

This site suggests "Germanic groups such as the Saxons, Franks, and Frisians". That seems like the more parsimonious explanation.


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INTPenistoday at 7:10 AM

Yeah but again we're coming up against safe archaelogical assumptions based on findings. But when we're talking Saxons and Frisians I find it hard to fail to mention the Angles and the Jutes.

thaumasiotestoday at 1:50 PM

> This site suggests "Germanic groups such as the Saxons, Franks, and Frisians". That seems like the more parsimonious explanation.

More... than what? What do you think Vikings are?

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