Editing Rugii (section)

===Possible continuations in the north===
It is assumed that Burgundians, Goths and Gepids with parts of the Rugians left [[Pomerania]] during the late Roman Age and that during the [[Migration Period]], remnants of Rugians, [[Vistula Veneti]], [[Vidivarii]] and other [[Germanic peoples|Germanic tribes]] remained and formed units that were later [[Slavs|Slavicized]].{{sfn|Machajewski|2003|p=282}} The Vidivarii themselves are described by [[Jordanes]] in his Getica as a [[melting pot]] of tribes that in the mid-6th century lived at the lower [[Vistula]].<ref>Andrew H. Merrills, ''History and Geography in Late Antiquity'', Cambridge University Press, 2005, p.325, {{ISBN|0-521-84601-3}}</ref><ref name=DeJong>[[Mayke de Jong]], Frans Theuws, Carine van Rhijn, ''Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages'', Brill, 2001, p.524, {{ISBN|90-04-11734-2}}</ref> Though differing from the earlier [[Wielbark culture]], some traditions were continued.<ref name=DeJong/> One hypothesis, based on the sudden appearance of large amounts of Roman solidi and migrations of other groups after the breakdown of the [[Hun]] empire in 453, suggest a partial re-migration of earlier emigrants to their former northern homelands.<ref name=DeJong/>

The ninth-century [[Old English]] [[Widsith]], a compilation of earlier oral traditions, mentions the tribe of the ''Holmrycum'' without localizing it.{{sfn|Andersson|2003}} ''Holmrygir'' are mentioned in an [[Old Norse]] [[skaldic]] poem, ''[[Hákonarmál]]'' and probably also in the [[Haraldskvæði]].<ref>Skj, B I,57</ref>{{sfn|Andersson|2003}}

[[James Campbell (historian)|James Campbell]] has argued that, regarding Bede's "Rugini", "the sense of the Latin is that these are the peoples from whom the [[Anglo-Saxons]] living in Britain were derived".<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|title=Essays in Anglo-Saxon history|last=Campbell |first=James|date=1986|publisher=Hambledon Press|isbn=090762832X|location=London|oclc=458534293}}</ref>{{rp|53}} The Rugini would thus be among the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons.<ref name= ":9" />{{rp|123–124}} Whether the Rugini were remnants of the Rugii is speculative.{{sfn|Andersson|2003}} Despite the identification by Bede as Germanic, some scholars have attempted to link the Rugini with the [[Rani (tribe)|Rani]].<ref name=Fraesdorff55>David Fraesdorff, ''Der barbarische Norden: Vorstellungen und Fremdheitskategorien bei Rimbert, Thietmar von Merseburg, Adam von Bremen und Helmold von Bosau'', Akademie Verlag, 2005, p.55, {{ISBN|3-05-004114-5}}</ref><ref>Joachim Herrmann, ''Welt der Slawen: Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Kultur'', C.H. Beck, 1986, p.265, {{ISBN|3-406-31162-8}}</ref>