AS Conquest

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Tue Dec 19 20:11:34 UTC 2000


This is interesting. Didn't both the Votadinii (Gododdin-sp?) and the
Damnoni (same as Dyfed?) become nuclei of medieval Welsh statelets? The
Votadini were originally in the area between Edinburgh and Northumbria,
weren't they?

>Part of the "foederati system" entailed moving group of peoples into buffer
>zones along Roman borders.  I believe that two groups from "Germania" called
>"Votadini" and "Damnoni" were actually moved as such to north Wales just
>around the time of Magus Maximus.

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701



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