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Dave Thatcher Posts: 17 Joined: 13th Aug 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 21:26 on 14th August 2010 On 28th February 2010 00:21, TheHermit wrote:
The true Emblem of the English [Englisc] is the White Dragon. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes were a very closely related group of Germanic tribes who lived adjacent to each other on the Jutland peninsular (modern Denmark) and north west Germany. Their languages, cultures and beliefs were virtually inseparable and they shared both common forefathers and a tribal and clan heritage. Intermarriage between these closely related tribes was not unusual (it was common) nor was warfare. These tribes would come together to invade the former Roman Province of Britain and carve out a homeland. They would name this homeland after the confederate tribal identity name they gave themselves, ‘Anglecynn’ (English people/folk/kin) the land came to be called England, land of the English/English-land. They would develop a unique English civilisation, and in the centuries to come their descendants would change the face of world. Edited by: Dave Thatcher at:21st August 2010 09:38 |
lancashirelove Posts: 1986 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:31 on 24th August 2010 Then came the Normans (Vikings and mixed North Europeans who interbred in Northern France (Normandy/Britainy). They, lead by William the Conqueror invaded England at Hastings in 1066. They were wealthy educated Norman Barons and were given land in England, by William for the part they played in raising armies for the invasion. The rest, as they say, is history! |
cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 14:38 on 24th August 2010 We are just mongrels then! lol |
lancashirelove Posts: 1986 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:54 on 24th August 2010 The whole world is full of mongrels, however there are good mongrels and bad mongrels, if you are going to breed, the bad mongrels should be discouraged, lol |
Dave Thatcher Posts: 17 Joined: 13th Aug 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 15:32 on 24th August 2010 Well obviously the Normans came, there was no wholesale immigration into what is now England. In proportion to the Anglo saxon population,it was a very small minority who came here and were given stolen land via the normal rules of warfare. Also the Normans were from the same bloodstock of the Anglo-Saxons, they had only been in The area of France known as Normandy for about 150 years, so the blood line would not have been diluted by any significant extent, The name Normandy=land of the Northmen ie' Vikings, come Angles/saxons/jutes/norwegians. Today we are seeing the results of Norman Conquest.....over representation of land ownership and mostly the class system which still pervades to this day. Edited by: Dave Thatcher at:24th August 2010 16:11 |
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