To: Interesting Times
This would be adequately explained if the invaders killed the men and ravished the women... NO it wouldn't. For the Y chromosome to have survived, it's the MEN of the Celts that had to keep breeding. You couldn't take their wives without your invading Y chromosome showing up. Perhaps as the Anglo-Saxons invaded they had their wives impregnated by the Celtic men before they cut their heads off? (sarcasm /off)
The "invading" Anglo-Saxons, although often clashing with the Celts, generally migrated to Britain WITH their families. They were chiefly bent on settlement, not plunder, unlike the vikings a few hundred years later.
17 posted on
12/06/2001 7:36:35 AM PST by
LN2Campy
To: WilliamWallace1999
NO it wouldn't. For the Y chromosome to have survived, it's the MEN of the Celts that had to keep breeding. You couldn't take their wives without your invading Y chromosome showing up. Perhaps as the Anglo-Saxons invaded they had their wives impregnated by the Celtic men before they cut their heads off? (sarcasm /off) I stand corrected.
(note to self: coffee first, then post...)
To: WilliamWallace1999; Interesting Times; blam
Perhaps as the Anglo-Saxons invaded they had their wives impregnated by the Celtic men before they cut their heads off? (sarcasm /off)
ANd can you imagine the scene?
"'Ere Brunhilde, go orn and 'ave it 'orf with the nice-looking Welsh mann there before I skewer 'im. I wants my kids to be able to read and wroight"
218 posted on
09/14/2004 12:50:19 AM PDT by
Cronos
(W2K4)
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