[SunkenCiv]

It's just possible that the "German" Y-chromosome is a survival of a continental Celtic forebear. So there! ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

"Gaia Vince" wrote the article. :'D

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[RandyRep]

This is a fairly stupid conclusion. To believe it, you would have to think that the 200,000 Anglo-Saxon males brought their women with them to ravish and pillage fair England. I doubt it.

They came and conquered a portion of central England, then took the Celtic maidens as the spoils of their conquest - breeding lustily with favorable laws, etc. The result is the 50% Germanic Y-DNA chromosome, which is passed only from father to son. It doesn't matter whether the mother was Celtic or German origin. Surely, she was Celtic in the main.

[ZULU]

"For example, these laws stated that if an Anglo-Saxon was killed, the "blood money", or "Wergild", payable to the family was up to five times more than the fine payable for the life of a native Celt."

And the Saxons got paid back when the Normans took over, e.g. "Presentment of Englishry."

Still, I favored the Celts first, then the Saxons, the Normans least. But then they cleaned out the Muslims from southern Italy and Sicily and were outstanding Crusaders which I suppose makes up for it.

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[marsh2]

Would this segregation be the "Dane Law" established in the eastern part of England? I believe you can note its spread by the germanic names of towns. The locals paid the germanic people a Danegeld to keep them from raiding.

The Viking people who populated Iceland brought their wives and livestock, but the freeman of the farmstead commonly had celtic slaves. I don't know why it would be different in England.