Posted on 07/04/2002 5:27:12 PM PDT by blam
As soon as you get it into your mind that the Bay of Biscay was a major ancient trading area, you realize that the Britons, Bretons, Galicians, Cornish, Southern Welsh and a good deal of the Irish are the exact same people culturally and in terms of blood relationships.
I don't know about this but, I don't doubt it either. There were many, many plagues and some would have had immunity.
Actually we refer to ourselves as 'Cymru' (The people) and to Angleland as 'Lloegyr' (The Lost Lands).... and while we are on it, its the Free Welsh Army and Meibion Gln Dwr (Sons of Glyndower).
"Come home to a real fire, by a cottage in Wales"
Cymru am buith....
' "Bo" is just another Celtic honorific, '.....
You have solved a mystery for me. In rural areas of the coastal plain of South Carolina, an area populated first by Scots-Irish, then by Highland Scots after the highland clearances, men who are friends often address each other as "Bo". I used to live there, and I haven't heard this anywhere else. You don't hear this in the city, only in the country. Now I understand.
Haven't had a chance to read all of this long thread yet, but am a little disturbed by the use of the phrase "ethnic cleansing" being applied to the Anglo Saxons, I'm suspicious of the motivation.
As far as I know, our heritage (the English heritage) of individual freedom and personal liberty is traceable in large part to Anglo Saxon custom and tradition.
My personal ancestry is divided pretty equally between Celtic and Germanic.
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thanks for posting this. b.
"Ioan Gruffudd" bump.
I would love to see Wales operate as an independent, sovereign nation again. It is likely that the politics that derive from such an event would make the place undesirable for anyone with a conservative point of view. It's already far too leftist for my taste.
Didn't know that, thanks.
In addition to this the English seem to have a desire to be completely absorbed into other identities. It is the English-Americans who are "just Americans," the English Canadians who are "just Canadians," the English Australians who are "just Australians," and the English in England are "just British" (the Welsh, Scots, and Irish have no such desire to be absorbed into a greater entity). Even the very names "England" and "English" have become mere synonyms for "Britain" and "British" in away the identities of the other British peoples has not.
The real losers in all this are not the people colonized by the English over the centuries (who all now have Communist national liberation movements rooting for them). It is the simple common people of the English diaspora (and it is often forgotten that not all English are, or have ever been, monocle-wearing colonialists or nobles). Alone among all mankind we have no sense of identity, no sense of an ancient motherland, no nothing.
While Welsh and Scottish nationalists get all the news it is England that most needs to secede from the United Kingdom. For it alone has had its national identity totally annihilated. In fact, I'm not sure such an entity as "England" even officially (unlike Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, which do). Each of those countries has its own parliament/assembly (as well as being represented in the British parliament in London) while England has no parliament at all. Its parliament, the oldest in the world, morphed into the British parliament long ago.
Unfortunately, English nationalism doesn't exist. The English have invested all their capital in being "British." But I believe that an sovereign and independent England would give the peoples of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora the same things all other peoples have (an identity and an ancestral homeland) and might go a long way toward eliminating the racism and nativism so many Anglo-Saxons turn to while trying to satisfy this completely legitimate need.
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Clearly, this whole thread is just for the fun of it, but Offa was a Mercian king (I'm not quite sure what century, but definitely before Alfred). He built a wall in the west Country and it came to be known as Offa's Dyke. I think it was meant to keep the Cymry west not to keep the Angles east (Mercians were largely Anglian).
Hope that helps add a timy bit of light to what is otherwise a thread full of silliness.
Not that there's anything bad about that, but that period does deserve a bit of respect amid the hilarity.
Thanks.
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