Meanings
- historicalThe arrival en masse of Germanic settlers or invaders in Britain in the 5th–6th centuries CE.
Anglo-Saxon demography and the adventus Saxonum begin with the fifth century.
1996, Michael E. Jones, The End of Roman Britain, →ISBN, page 363 more examples
If the ‘Adventus Saxonum’ is placed within ten years of the middle of the fifth century, it can hardly be far wrong; […]
1936, R. G. Collingwood, J. N. L. Myres, Roman Britain and the English Settlements, →ISBN, page 356The non-survival of Celtic place-names from the period before the Adventus Saxonum presents a perennial problem for students of Anglo-Saxon England.
2004, Carole Hough, “The (Non?)-Survival of Romano-British Toponymy”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, volume 105, number 1, →JSTOR, page 25The history of the Adventus Saxonum is a fascinating one. The stories that were told in the Middle Ages about ‘the Arrival of the Saxons’ on the island of Britain, and the influence of those stories on later audiences, reveal a lot about notions of collective identity.
2022 October 5, Joanna Story, “Revisiting the Adventus Saxonum, again: exploring the implications of new evidence”, in The Past
Origin
- Latinadventus Saxōnum“arrival of the Saxons”
- EnglishAdventus Saxonum
Borrowed from Latin adventus Saxōnum (“arrival of the Saxons”).
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