you're not a million miles out Clinton.
But there is a difference between 'the' British and 'a' Briton...and the
country the 'mob' came over to is Britain...
did your cousin in law explain why the Welsh are the only true Britons?
It's 'cos when the Romans arrived they retreated to the mountains of Wales
and hid themselves.
The rest had a bit of a fight, lost and were still around when the Vikings
(my ancestors) appeared, and when the Angles, Saxons (and Jutes, everyone
forgets the Jutes) and then the Normans arrived.
Well this lot got to partying and nature took its course.
Meanwhile the Welsh/Britons were still hiding in their caves, frightened to
come out. Of course nature still had to take it's course - which is why
there are only a handful of surnames in Wales :-)>
Best Cheers
Frank
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----- Original Message -----
From: Coates, Clinton <CCoates@golder.com>
To: <lro-digest@Works.Team.Net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:15 PM
Subject: LRO: True Brits (was Guiness)
> Somebody wrote that the Scots, English and Welsh were British, but not the
> Irish? I have a cousin in law from Wales (a Jones...) who has informed me
> that "...the Welsh are the only true Britons...". The term English is an
> evolved form of Angleisch (or some version of this spelling) which comes
> from the Angles, one of the Teutonic mob that came over to Briton in the
> 400s and onwards. Hence, Anglo-Saxon... It seems there was a Welsh king
> named Arthur or Artur or Artursus or somesuch who took umbrage with this
and
> tried to kick them out, to no avail...
>
> I am sure someone with a better grasp of history and archaeo-linguistics
> could pin me down on some of the dates and details, but in broad strokes,
I
> think that comes close.
>
> Funny, all those good Anglo Saxon Britons from Robin Hood's time were
being
> put upon by Normans, who were nothing more than a bunch of hopped up
> Vikings, another Germanic crowd.
>
> Gotta love history!
>
> Clinton
>
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