Re: [tied] Re: The Normans and their language

Michal Milewski wrote:

> John Croft wrote:
>
> > The Jutes who arrived in Kent, and the later Anglo-Saxons, replaced
> > the Romano-British elite with a Germanic one, constantly reinforced
> > by new arrivals from Germany. There was little need for the Germanic
> > elite to marry British, they had suffcient Anglo-Saxon wives from
> > amongst the new arrivals to chose from.
>
> Very interesting post. I wonder whether, you have a similar theory
> explaining the "slavization" of Bulgars. Did they not have enough Bulgar
> women with themselves? And what about the Hungarians? How did they manage to
> save their language after they were mixed with local Slavs? What was the
> difference between them and Bulgars? And another question (although not
> related to the language problem): why was the fate of the Magyars so
> different from that of Huns and Avars?
>
> Michal
>

Pannonia at this time wasn't heavily populated. Deserta was often used to
describe it, not because it was a desert but because of its low population.
Though Slavs lived there they may have been in the minority to the Magyars.
Why was their fate different from the others? Christianity. After their
defeat at the Lechfeld they converted to Christianity. Stephen was crowned king
and had the protection of the Empire. What with all the German artisans and
pesants that were brought in Germanization was more of a concern than the Slavs
were.