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Record W2982114054 · doi:10.29173/spectrum59

The Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain

2019· article· en· W2982114054 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSpectrum · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMedieval Literature and History
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCeltic languagesPeriod (music)HistoryInterpretation (philosophy)Anglo saxonOld EnglishLiteratureClassicsAncient historyArtLinguisticsArchaeologyAestheticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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The Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries is typically a story of slaughter anddestruction. This is largely because Gildas, the only known contemporary to write about the events,portrayed it as such, and subsequent writers have taken his interpretation as fact. However, Gildas wasnot a historian, nor did he claim to be. Modern archeological research has proven that Gildas exaggeratedmuch of the destruction he claims took place, but this has not changed the popular notion that theAnglo-Saxons conquered and subdued the native Britons. However, the literature, art, and language ofthe Saxons and the Britons prior to and during the Anglo-Saxon period indicates the two peoples musthave joined together in more than just war. However, the question remains: to what extent did thisaffect the peoples, and the culture that emerged from this period? This paper uses an interdisciplinaryapproach. First, it uses archeological evidence to critically examine the modern historiographicevidence for the conquer-and-destroy model of Anglo-Saxon colonization. It then uses literary analysisto demonstrate the Celtic story-telling influences in the Anglo-Saxon literary opus Beowulf, and finallyconsiders the linguistic evidence of Celtic language influences on Old English. Ultimately, though theAnglo-Saxon language (Old English) emerged as the dominant language of the island, there was far morecultural exchange between the two peoples than has previously been acknowledged. This is crucial tounderstanding this important era of British history and the development of British-English culture.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.960
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it