Re: Why Don't the Welsh Speak Latin?

John Briggs wrote:
On 01/06/2010 09:28, Pete Barrett wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2010 01:19:20 +0100, John Briggs
<john.briggs4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Oh, it's solid - and something of an embarrassment to those who don't
believe in Anglo-Saxon invasions.

Why should it be an embarrassment? The settling of British people in
Armorica could surely have happened independently of Anglo-Saxon
invasions, if any? Indeed, the legends say that the first wave of
settlement was by British soldiers of Macsen Wledig (Magnus Maximus),
which would be *before* any possible Anglo-Saxon incursions into Great
Britain.

Would it?

Yes.
.

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