<sod>This view has influenced much of the linguistic, scholarly and popular perceptions of the process of anglicisation in Britain. It remains the starting point and 'default position', to which other hypotheses are compared in modern reviews of the evidence.<ref>Grimmer, M. (2007) ''Invasion, Settlement or Political Conquest: Changing Representations of the Arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain'', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 3(1) pp. 169-186.</ref> Our best contemporary source, Gildas, certainly suggests that just such a change of populations did take place. However, Freeman's ideas did not go unchallenged, even as they were being propounded. In particular, the essayist [[Grant Allen]] believed in a strong Celtic contribution to Englishness.<eod>
<sod>This view has influenced much of the linguistic, scholarly and popular perceptions of the process of anglicisation in Britain. It remains the starting point and 'default position', to which other hypotheses are compared in modern reviews of the evidence.<ref>Grimmer, M. (2007) ''Invasion, Settlement or Political Conquest: Changing Representations of the Arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain'', Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 3(1) pp. 169-186.</ref> Widespread extermination and displacement of the native peoples of Britain is still considered a viable possibility by certain scholars.<ref>Ausenda, G. (1997) ''Current issues and future directions in the study of the early Anglo-Saxon period'', in Hines, J. (ed.) ''The Anglo-Saxons from Migration Period to the Eighth Century'', Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology, pp. 411-450</ref>   Our best contemporary source, Gildas, certainly suggests that just such a change of populations did take place. However, Freeman's ideas did not go unchallenged, even as they were being propounded. In particular, the essayist [[Grant Allen]] believed in a strong Celtic contribution to Englishness.<eod>