--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:
> Incidentally, the linguistic ancestors of the English were some
West Germanic barbarians with a penchant for opportunistic piracy --
nothing particularly impressive, but evidently one can live with such
a family history. At any rate, no-one questions the theory that Proto-
English was brought to Britain from the continent.
The timing has been questioned by a serious, respected historian! I
have seen that the suggestion that the Saxons, at least, were in
England before the Romans. This has been advanced as the real reason
for the East coast of Roman Britain being called the 'Saxon Shore'!
(I believe I read the suggestion in the Oxford History of England,
published by the OUP.)
Richard.