MagicRaptor OP t1_ira60u3 wrote on October 6, 2022 at 2:04 PM

Reply to comment by Tiberius_1919 in Where did the English language REALLY come from? by MagicRaptor

That was a good read, thank you! I hope I live long enough to see these questions definitively answered because it's clear that as of right now, SOMETHING is missing. Whether it's a breakthrough in genetic technology, a massive archaeological discovery, a hidden vault of early medieval scrolls unearthed from some church vault, or a revolutionary new way of categorizing and studying languages, I just hope I'm still alive to see it.

Tiberius_1919 t1_ira8slb wrote on October 6, 2022 at 2:23 PM

Me too honestly, I’d love to be able to know for certain but unfortunately a high level of certainty is very unlikely to ever surface.

But who knows, each subsequent study on the Anglo-Saxon migrations have shed more and more light and offered more and more concrete and well-evidenced hypotheses on this era