Glyndr
02-06-2003, 07:01 PM
Beirniadaeth ddigon hallt a ddaeth o du’r fforwm‘ma ynglyn â’r Saeson ac yr Eingl-Saeson.
I wondered how far down you’d have to scroll before you’d encounter some ‘English bashing’ post in this forum? The English don’t ‘deny their Anglo-Saxon blood’ as somebody commented, but what are they suggesting….that the modern day descendants of the Celts are more ‘racially pure’ that the English? The whole of the British Isles is one big ‘mixing pot’ of peoples from antiquity to the present. The Celts were a mixed race before they reached the British Isles and what happened to the non-Celtic Neolithic aborigines they encountered?
It has been argued with great possibility that the inhabitants of Britain whom the English called ‘Wealas’ or Welsh were not the Brython or ‘Brettas’ as they termed them, but the provincial Romans (Romano-British) or the latinised part of the population thought the name came eventually to include the Brythonic Celts of the west of the Island. Over the course of history these peoples merged along with other invading peoples Vikings, Normans etc. to form the English of today.
Ethnological evidence shows that the mass of the English population is descended from the Pre-Celtic, Pre-Agricultural and Early Agricultural Ages.
The theory of the wholesale extermination by the Anglo-Saxons of the Britons has been founded on very scant and dubious evidence? As for racial claims for Arthur and Merlin obviously they can’t be claimed as English because England didn’t exist in their time, Arthur is recognized as King of Britain when referring to ancient Britain, but it would be pedantic of me to point out that St Patrick was Welsh and Owain Glyndwr was English!
Gadewch i'r Saeson fod, peidiwch beirniadu'r Saeson!
I wondered how far down you’d have to scroll before you’d encounter some ‘English bashing’ post in this forum? The English don’t ‘deny their Anglo-Saxon blood’ as somebody commented, but what are they suggesting….that the modern day descendants of the Celts are more ‘racially pure’ that the English? The whole of the British Isles is one big ‘mixing pot’ of peoples from antiquity to the present. The Celts were a mixed race before they reached the British Isles and what happened to the non-Celtic Neolithic aborigines they encountered?
It has been argued with great possibility that the inhabitants of Britain whom the English called ‘Wealas’ or Welsh were not the Brython or ‘Brettas’ as they termed them, but the provincial Romans (Romano-British) or the latinised part of the population thought the name came eventually to include the Brythonic Celts of the west of the Island. Over the course of history these peoples merged along with other invading peoples Vikings, Normans etc. to form the English of today.
Ethnological evidence shows that the mass of the English population is descended from the Pre-Celtic, Pre-Agricultural and Early Agricultural Ages.
The theory of the wholesale extermination by the Anglo-Saxons of the Britons has been founded on very scant and dubious evidence? As for racial claims for Arthur and Merlin obviously they can’t be claimed as English because England didn’t exist in their time, Arthur is recognized as King of Britain when referring to ancient Britain, but it would be pedantic of me to point out that St Patrick was Welsh and Owain Glyndwr was English!
Gadewch i'r Saeson fod, peidiwch beirniadu'r Saeson!