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DNA Test Can Detect Picts' Descendants
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-14-2006 | Auslan Cramb

Posted on 08/14/2006 6:17:14 PM PDT by blam

DNA test can detect Picts' descendants

By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent

(Filed: 14/08/2006)

A geneticist has created a DNA test for "Scottishness" that will tell people whether they are direct descendants of the Picts.

The test, expected to cost about £130, checks a sample of saliva against 27 genetic markers linked to some of the earliest inhabitants of Scotland.

Dr Jim Wilson, of the public health sciences department at Edinburgh University, said: "We started this work a few years ago, looking at the Norse component, and we proved that a large proportion of people on Orkney are descended from Vikings.

"Now the markers have moved on massively and we have discovered that we can trace back the component of the indigenous Picts by looking at the unique grouping of their Y-chromosome. We believe that this would have been found only in Scotland."

Scientists were able to isolate the unique Pictish DNA strands from 1,000-year-old bone fragments found in ancient burial grounds


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To: skepsel

Don Marquis?


41 posted on 08/14/2006 9:56:10 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Bingo! I was thinking after I typed it, maybe RAH used a little artistic license, the time frane is about right for RAH as a youngster to have read Marquis. No telling what fragments of our early readings stick in our memories.


42 posted on 08/14/2006 10:08:57 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: blam

This is a great thread.


43 posted on 08/14/2006 11:40:23 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: Caramelgal
Where do you think the English [got] their common laws

Excuse me, but Saxons are NOT Vikings! They're Germanic.

Also, North America was "discovered" thousands of years before a few Johnny-come-lately biker-types in longboats.

44 posted on 08/15/2006 2:09:19 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: martin_fierro

Just found out today that my baby brother, the one who's been taking the family Y-chromosome tests for me, has renal cancer.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.


45 posted on 08/15/2006 2:16:56 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: CobaltBlue; Rameumptom; Jedi Master Pikachu; muawiyah
OK so like I had way too much time on my hands tonight - enjoy!

English Common Law as we understand it today, written laws, not based on local customs and whims as the Saxon legal system, but a more universally and fairly applied and codified law and the basis in part on which our own legal system was formed did not come the Saxons, it came from the Normans = Norse via their invasion, settlement and assimilation of northern France.

“In the Saxon system even serious crimes were person al matters”..

“The Normans made crime a public matter, and the King's authority became more heavily involved in adjudicating. His officials evolved over the next few centuries into professional judges and barristers, and judges from the King's Court”

“They also restricted the church to the administration of ecclesiastical law”

Read more: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=common%20law

But even before the Normans, a substantial part of England was settled and ruled by Vikings, the area known as the Daneland or Danelaw. Many place names in England and Ireland have origins in these Norse settlements: http://www.viking.no/e/england/danelaw/epl-danelaw.htm

What was the Viking Legal System like?; The very word LAW in English is a Viking word; a legislative assembly and a court; a jury of 12 http://www.viking.no/e/life/elaws.htm

Viking Society - A Self-Regulated Society; the Viking system was more democratic. It included everybody as citizens (even woman and the handicapped), except the slaves and those exiled from society - the outlaws http://www.arild-hauge.com/elife.htm

And the Vikings left their mark on the English language. http://www.viking.no/e/england/e-viking_english.htm

The Vikings in Russia; the Slavs, exhausted by uninterrupted inter-tribal wars, made the following proposal to the Rus (a name borrowed from the Finns to designate the Swedes): "Our country is rich and immense, but it is rent by disorder. Come and govern us and reign over us". http://www.viking.no/e/russia/index.html

The Vikings in Ireland: The Vikings were now a factor in the internal politics of Ireland and were accepted as such. Norse-Irish alliances became commonplace. http://www.ncte.ie/viking/vikage.htm

In short the stereotype of the Vikings and their culture as “Hells Angles in Longboats” is untrue. Yes they pirated, pillaged and plundered, but they also had a complex society, with laws, morals, religion, works of art and literature and while brutal and warlike, they were not so much unlike other tribes of Western Europe; the Celts, Vandals, Picts, Angles, Saxons, Francs, but for several hundred years, they just did it better!
46 posted on 08/15/2006 6:16:59 PM PDT by Caramelgal (There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.)
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To: Caramelgal

The derivation of the word "law" is Teutonic (Anglo-Saxon) lagu, meaning something which is fixed.

The Common Law has Celtic and Anglo Saxon derivation. See, for example, West Saxon Lage.

The Civil Law, which the Normans brought, is Catholic canon law, derived from the Romans, who got it from the Greeks. First codified in the Code of Justinian.

If you are really interested in learning more about the history of the Common Law, most start with Blackstone:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/blackstone/blacksto.htm

For Civil Law, nothing beats Yiannopoulos (as he would tell you himself):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579803806/sr=8-4/qid=1155755649/ref=sr_1_4/102-6634800-7464918?ie=UTF8


47 posted on 08/16/2006 12:20:15 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: blam
Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
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48 posted on 09/10/2006 8:43:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 2, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Those poor, misunderstood bloodthirsty killers, the Vikings.
Did the Vikings drive natives from the isles?
by Stephen Stewart
May 17 2005
Viking settlers may have "ethnically cleansed" Scotland's islands, waging a genocidal campaign against native Pictish tribes as they arrived, according to evidence uncovered by archaeologists... Work at Langskaill farm, in Westray, shows signs of a Pictish culture vanish abruptly with the arrival of the Scandinavians, underlining the theory that the Northern Isles were taken violently... A Viking-Norse longhouse was unearthed, which was built directly over an earlier earth house and part of a Pictish house, probably indicating a takeover of the site and adjoining lands... In recent years, the image of the Vikings has been transformed from bloodthirsty pagan savages to that of sophisticated merchants with exceptional navigational and engineering skills. The finds on Orkney, however, are expected to reopen the entire debate.

49 posted on 09/15/2006 2:14:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Saturday, September 2, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: CobaltBlue

Vikings and Saxons were both Germanic & old Norse is a Germanic language. Some of the earliest English common law was derived from Danelaw.

Biker types? ::rolls eyes::


50 posted on 09/16/2006 1:58:06 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: CobaltBlue

There wasn't really an "England" under the Angles & Saxons. Welsh or "British" law wasn't incorporated into English law.


51 posted on 09/16/2006 2:15:43 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Holden Magroin
"Were William Wallace and Robert the Bruce Highlanders or Lowlanders?"

The Bruce family was of the Anglo-Norman elite. Adam de Brus accompanied William the Conqueror to England where he was given large estates. The Scots-Irish American Witherspoon family traces it's lineage back to Robert the Bruce through John Knox (The Reformer) who married Margaret Stewart of the Ochiltree branch of the Stewart line.

52 posted on 09/16/2006 2:31:44 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Were the Picts indigenous?

Yes

The British Isles seem to have gotten wave after wave of peoples from the mainland (Iberia, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Norman French, Poles, etc.).

Poles? Few places in the world have been spared wave after wave of peoples from elsewhere.

53 posted on 09/16/2006 9:58:23 AM PDT by GoLightly
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To: GoLightly

And what law school did you attend, dear?


54 posted on 09/16/2006 11:38:22 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: CobaltBlue
Hywel Dda get a mention in any of your studies?

Go back and read your Blackstone, hon.

By the ftatute alfo of Wales c very material alterations were made in divers parts of their laws, fo as to reduce them nearer to the Englifh ftandard, efpecially in the forms of their judicial proceedings : but they ftill retained very much of their original polity, particularly their rule of inheritance, viz, that their lands were divided equally among all the iffue male, and did not defcend to the eldeft fon alone.

The Welsh laws were retained in Wales after Edward I brought them under direct English rule, but those laws were never made part of English law. Welsh family law helped lead to the demise of an independant Wales.

BTW, "all issue male" included natural born sons, but those with handicaps were excluded.

55 posted on 09/16/2006 12:52:56 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: CobaltBlue

Blackstone's Commentaries: Book 1, Part 1, Section 3
http://www.constitution.org/tb/tb-1103.htm

But the irruption and establishment of the Danes in England, which followed soon after, introduced new customs, and caused this code of Alfred in many provinces to fall into disuse; or at least to be mixed and debased with other laws of a coarser alloy. So that about the beginning of the eleventh century there were three principal systems of laws, prevailing in different districts. 1. The Mercen-Lage, or Mercian laws which were observed in many of the midland counties, and those bordering on the principality of Wales, the retreat of the antient Britons; and therefore very probably intermixed with the British or Druidical customs. 2. The West-Saxon-Lage, or laws of the west Saxons, which obtained in the counties to the south and west of the island, from Kent to Devonshire. These were probably much the same with the laws of Alfred above-mentioned, being the municipal law of the far most considerable part of his dominions, and particularly including Berkshire, the seat of his peculiar residence. 3. The Dane-Lage, or Danish law, the very name of which speaks it's original and composition. This was principally. maintained in the rest of the midland counties, and also on the eastern coast, the part most exposed to the visits of that piratical people. As for the very northern provinces, they were at that time under a distinct government.[8]

Out of these three laws, Roger Hoveden[9] and Ranulphus Cestrensis[10] inform us, king Edward the confessor extracted one uniform law or digest of laws, to be observed throughout the whole kingdom; though Hoveden and the author of an old manuscript chronicle[11] assure us likewise, that this work was projected and begun by his grandfather king Edgar.


56 posted on 09/16/2006 1:11:42 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: SunkenCiv

I wonder if those rotten Vikings were only coming home, since that love to boat thing was common to Norsemen & Picts. Course, the physical descriptions of the populations would argue against it.


57 posted on 09/16/2006 1:26:25 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: bannie

"Oh.....Jute!"

LOL! You guys are killing me.


58 posted on 09/16/2006 1:28:18 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: dljordan

(note to self: Don't kill the good guys.)


59 posted on 09/16/2006 1:44:34 PM PDT by bannie (HILLARY: Not all perversions are sexual.)
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To: GoLightly

Well, you just blew your own theory, didn't you?

First, you said "Welsh or "British" law wasn't incorporated into English law."

Then, when you took the trouble to look it up, you found that you were wrong.

You also found out that the argument made upstream, that English law is "really" Danelaw, was also false.

Good job!


60 posted on 09/16/2006 4:23:13 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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