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PeterH May 2, 2005 18:57:42
Replying to Littlestone

Plenty of "inter-reaction" - they bred us! The old notion that the nasty AS invaders exterminated the Celts and drove the survivors into Wales, Cornwall and Brittany is challenged now. British chiefs and head guys may have gone west, but the bulk of the population seems to have stayed put, become serfs (that is what Welsh means) and interbred. DNA studies support this view.

H hamish
hamish May 2, 2005 20:41:26
Replying to PeterH

I thought Welsh was Anglo-Saxon for foreigner.

H hamish
hamish May 2, 2005 20:41:26
Replying to PeterH

I thought Welsh was Anglo-Saxon for foreigner.

L Littlestone
Littlestone May 2, 2005 22:37:09
Replying to PeterH

Cant agree, I'm afraid, that they (the 'Celts') bred us.

There was almost certainly more influence by the 'Celts' on the Germanic tribes that migrated to these islands after the Romans withdrew than has hitherto been acknowledged but the Germanic tribes that came here brought with them their own language, poetry, laws and belief systems which, though perhaps not always as sophisticated as those they supplanted, are none the less 'ours' and something to be proud of.