Vet van mij. De waarde van het aangeven van een locatie in een dergelijk systeem is 0. Maar toch is het de moeite waard om door te nemen wat over Elite presence gezegd kan worden. Wellicht hier en daar nog een leuk discussiepuntje.
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Frisia?
Type: Elite presence
Original text: His ita gestis, Dani cum rege suo nomen Chlochilaichum evectu navale per mare Gallias appetunt. Egressique ad terras, pagum unum de regno Theudorici devastant [...] Theodobertum filium suum, in illis partibus cum valido exercitu ac magno armorum apparatu direxit.
Translation text: The next thing which happened was that the Danes sent a fleet under their King Chlochilaich and invaded Gaul from the sea. They came ashore, laid waste one of the regions ruled by Theuderic [...] he sent his son Theudebert to those parts with a powerful army and all the necessary equipment.
Year: 516 - 526
Remarks: Conventionally dated to c. 520. Cf. Storms (1970). See Storms for a collection of all evidence and historical reconstruction. Chlochilaich is usually identified as Hygelac from Beowulf. If true, this event is mentioned in the following attestations: - Gregory of Tours, Libri Decem Historiarum, 3.3 (names "north of Gaul") - Liber Historia Francorum, 19. (names "Hetware") cf. attestation 271 -Beowulf, II. 2914b-2920a. (names "Frisia") and also 1202-1214a; 2354b-2372; 2493b-2508a cf. attestation 272 -Liber Monstrorum de diversibus generibus 1.2. (names "Isle in the Rhine"). cf. attestation 272 The relationship between these texts and the historicity of the event are under discussion. The location is unclear: but would have presumably been close to the sea somewhere in northern Gaul. The attestation in LHF of "Hetware" (near Nijmegen) is presumably an 8th-century invention, paralleling a Saxon invasion in 715. (Goffart 1997). The "isle in the Rhine" mentioned by the Liber Monstrorum cannot be precisely located either, since it is a Roman-classical topos to describe the Low Countries/Betuwe, going back to 'insula Batavorum in Rheno' (Dijkstra 2011) NB. the use of 'pagum' in Gregory!