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To: SunkenCiv

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.


4 posted on 07/18/2006 11:03:38 PM PDT by RandyRep
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To: RandyRep

Also, wouldn't the Normans have carried Germanic DNA?


21 posted on 07/24/2006 7:20:09 PM PDT by rmlew (I'm a Goldwater Republican... Don Goldwater 2006!)
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