Editing Brittany (section)

====Additional waves of Britons====
Brythonic (British Celtic) settlement increased during the [[Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain]] in the 5th and 6th centuries to seek refuge from the Anglo-Saxon invaders. It is from this event that Brittany derives its name.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Brittany-region-France/History |title=Brittany}}{{blockquote|After the Romans withdrew, Celts from Britain moved into the area to seek refuge from the Anglo-Saxon invaders of the 5th and 6th centuries. It is from this event that Brittany derives its name.}}</ref> [[File:Britonia6hcentury.png|thumb|left|The [[Brythonic languages|Brythonic]] community around the 6th century. The sea was a communication medium rather than a barrier.]]

Scholars such as [[Léon Fleuriot]] have suggested a two-wave model of migration from Britain which saw the emergence of an independent Breton people and established the dominance of the [[Brittonic languages|Brythonic]] [[Breton language]] in Armorica.<ref>[[Léon Fleuriot]], ''Les origines de la Bretagne: l'émigration'', Paris, Payot, 1980.</ref> Their [[petty kingdom]]s are now known by the names of the counties that succeeded them—[[Domnonée]] ([[Devon]]), [[Cornouaille]] ([[Cornwall]]), [[Viscounty of Léon|Léon]] ([[Caerleon]]); but these names in Breton and [[Latin]] are in most cases identical to their British homelands. (In Breton and French, however, [[Gwened (kingdom)|Gwened]] or [[Pays Vannetais|Vannetais]] continued the name of the indigenous [[Veneti (Gauls)|Veneti]].) Although the details remain confused, these colonies consisted of related and intermarried dynasties which repeatedly unified (as by the 7th-century [[Saint Judicaël]]) before splintering again according to Celtic inheritance practices.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}