My Celtic ancestors helped to clear out some of those Danish invaders residing in north west Scotland about 1,000 years ago. From what I understand, the Engle and Saxon Germans actually came from Jutland Germany which is the peninsula that extends from Germany up into the North Sea. Perhaps they had more similarities to Danes then the mainland Germans. Would like to see similar DNA work done on the early German tribes. Some of our legends come from them. The Unicorn. The Werewolf. Those early German tribes contained some incredible warriors. They conquered most of Western Europe after the Romans retreated. Perhaps the common incorrect assumptions that the Saxons and Engles basically exterminated the native Celtic peoples of England were based on the fierce warrior abilities these Germans possessed. Historically the first Germans were originally invited onto the island to work as mercenary/allies for specific warring Celtic tribes. Just as the Romans originally were. Hindsight would say those were two big errors by the Celts, but DNA seems to show that those errors did not last very long. Either that or perhaps Celtic women have some, um, desirable qualities.
Oops. Should read north east Scotland. Not north west.
These are the "Angels" ~ .
The predecessor language group is called Old West Gothic.
thanks to Cronos for most of these cool graphics:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~cfford/Indoeuropean%20language%20family%20tree.jpg
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cpercy/hell/images/indoeuro.jpg
http://www.bartleby.com/61/JPG/tree.jpg
http://www.sciencenews.org/20020525/a1685_1903.jpg
