[WilliamWallace1999]

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)

[LN2Campy]

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.

[Interesting Times]

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...)

[Cronos]

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"