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Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.

Frank Stenton describes this omission as " a scholar's dislike of the indefinite "; traditional material that could not be dated or used for the Bede's didactic purposes had no interest for him.