[KarlInOhio]

ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?

WOMAN: King of the who?

ARTHUR: The Britons.

WOMAN: Who are the Britons?

ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.

[an amused spectator]

heads-up

[Rytwyng]

a large-scale Anglo-Saxon invasion, which wiped out most of the indigenous population in England but did not reach Wales....The team studied the Y-chromosome, which is usually inherited unchanged from father to son

Ah, but the Y DNA only reveals the MALE lineages. The mitchondrial DNA reveals the females (it takes 2 to tango). And the mtDNA of the English is a lot more "native", having changed relatively little since the Neolithic. This suggests that the English are primarily descended from Anglo-Saxon fathers, and Celtic mothers. In simpler terms - a lot of Anglo-Saxon MEN invaded, and took conquered Celtic women as wives or concubines.

The same thing happened in Mexico when the Spanish arrived -- a large majority of the Y chromosomes are "Iberian" yet most of the mtDNA is American Indian. Something similar happened in Ireland long before recorded history, as the Irish have mainly Iberian Y chromosomes (almost identical to Basques) yet northern European mtDNA, indicating that Basque men must have overrun Ireland in the same way that the Anglo-Saxons overran England.

How on earth are we going to sort out THIS "reparations" mess?

[Petar Mrkonjic]

Scientists say they have discovered big genetic differences between the English and Welsh, reinforcing the idea that the "true" Britons were pushed to the fringes by a large-scale Anglo-Saxon invasion.

Is that why English is a Germanic language?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Have they found any Roman DNA?

[SunkenCiv]

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[AFreeBird]

Lets here it for the Welsh and their stunning contributions to humanity.

[AmericanVictory]

“And all day long the noise of battle rolled...”

[FourPeas]

I've heard the theory before, but this is the first genetic link about which I've read. My ancestry traces back to Wales as well as Scotland & Ireland; I say we throw the Anglo-Saxons out and reclaim our lands.

[ZULU]

Modern English is closest to Frisian.

English itself derives not DIRECTLY from Old Germanic but from “Old English” which was formerly termed “Anglo-Saxon”. I believe Old Germanic gave rise to Alemannic, Alsatian, Old Saxon, Frankish, Old English, etc.

Ans interesting aside to all this is Tocharian. Tocharian was an Indo-European Language spoken in what is now western China. It is closest, not the Slavic Languages, but to Celtic, Germanic and Italic Languages. It is known only from documents. How it got to Central Asia is pretty much a mystery and the speakers of this language died out in remote antiquity. It is thought that the Taklamakan Desert Mummies may have been Tocharian speakers. Some of them appear to have had red hair, tall stature and caucausoid features and some of the fabrics found with them were tartan patterned and woven in style reminiscent of western European patterns.