[blam]

Works for me.

[syriacus]

What an interesting thread this is!!!

[ArneFufkin]

There really is nothing like a good ethnic cleansing to tidy up the gene pool.

[Rebelbase]

Seven Nations, Celtic Rock.

[aristeides]

I knew that Wagner uses "welsch" (the cognate in German to our "Welsh") in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg to refer to what is French, so I looked "welsch" up in a German etymological dictionary. Seems the original Germanic noun referred to Celts, and in particular to the Gallic tribe called "Volcae" in Latin. Because of the Roman occupation of the Gallic areas in France, Northern Italy, etc., some Germanic peoples applied the term to Romance peoples like the French and Italians. The Anglo-Saxons invading Britain applied the term to the Welsh, who were both Celtic and semi-Romanized.

[PJ-Comix]

No news here. I've known for a long time from reading material on the subject that this is the case. This article acts like this info is something new. It is not. Lots of material out there for years shows that the Welsh, Irish, and Basques are related.

[PJ-Comix]

Wasn't King Arthur the leader of the CLF (Cornish Liberation Front)?

[Terriergal]

I just wonder why it matters?

[Consort]

The Celtic League
Ireland (Eire)	Scotland (Alba)	Isle of Man (Mannin)	Cornwall (Kernow)	Wales (Cymru)	Brittany (Breizh)

[muawiyah]

We went through this exact same thing several months ago. The conclusion was the same as it always has been ! the Anglo-Saxon heathens must return from whence they came.

[Tribune7]

with Offa's Dyke acting as a "genetic barrier"

I could see where that could be a genetic barrier.

[aristeides]

The study was of the Y-chromosome, passed from father to son. So invading Anglo-Saxon men still could have bred with indigenous Briton women. I don't think this study would rule that possibility out.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"Welsh are true Britons."

I smell REP - PAR - A - SHUNS acoming in.

[blam]

Ping.

[Jim Noble]

Gene scientists claim to have found proof that the Welsh are the "true" Britons.

Nice lookin', those Britons, eh?

[P.O.E.]

Aye an' a bit of Mackeral settler rack and ruin
ran it doon by the haim, 'ma place
well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side
and I cried, cried, cried.

The fear a fallen down taken never back the raize
and then Craig Marion, get out wi' ye Claymore out mi pocket
a' ran doon, doon the middin stain
picking the fiery horde that was fallen around ma feet.

Never he cried, never shall it ye get me alive
ye rotten hound of the burnie crew.
Well I snatched fer the blade O my Claymore
cut and thrust and I fell doon before him round his feet.
Aye!
A roar he cried
frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall but as dead,
dead as 'a can be by his feet; de ya ken?


...and the wind cried back.



- Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict (Pink Floyd)

[rintense]

My Great Grandparents were from Wales.

[Natural Law]

This is inellectually dishonest because it ignores evidence of the pre-celtic inhabitants who would be even truer Britons.

[Ciexyz]

I always knew Ioan Gruffudd was one of a kind! (the Welsh actor in A&E's Horatio Hornblower series.)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

ping...

[Cacique]

L8R