Thanks for posting this. I've known about and read already 90% of the sources and stories you've condensed into this story. There's not much out there. And this is one of my favourite not-so-well known parts of history with the Anglo-Saxon refugees from England after 1066. I've read that some of those ships stopped and settled on the west coast of France too. Do you have any more information about the Crimean Goths, were they a mixed people? Did they speak a version of English?
Thanx for the revelation; I had no idea that the English had established a colony in the Crimea.
By the way: Have you read anything by Alfred Duggan? His book Count Bohemond contains an interesting reconstruction of doomed Anglo-Varangian heroism at Durazzo.
Fascinating tale VC !
I will look at Crimea and its history very differently now.
Thank you!
Thanks for posting this. I've known about and read already 90% of the sources and stories you've condensed into this story. There's not much out there. And this is one of my favourite not-so-well known parts of history with the Anglo-Saxon refugees from England after 1066. I've read that some of those ships stopped and settled on the west coast of France too. Do you have any more information about the Crimean Goths, were they a mixed people? Did they speak a version of English?
Unfortunately I don’t, the sources for them are few and far between. I’ll keep an eye out for anything!
Thanx for the revelation; I had no idea that the English had established a colony in the Crimea.
By the way: Have you read anything by Alfred Duggan? His book Count Bohemond contains an interesting reconstruction of doomed Anglo-Varangian heroism at Durazzo.
Thank you! No, but I’ll give it a look.
Most of his books are easily located on l i b g e n dot r s