Re: note to uk.people.gothic readers


"H Duffy" <Hester_Duffy_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> have anything to do with the various peoples who make up the ethnic
>>> characteristics of Britain (you forgot the Jutes, Picts, and Angles,
>>> btw and the Romans may have had some input but genetically not that
>>> great))
>>
>> ah, less of the raping, more of the pillaging from our continental
>> cousins then.
>
> Less of the raping, more of the settling down and marrying a local,
> actually, in the case of the Romans, the Vikings, and most of the other
> incoming tribes.
>
That's not really true. The Vikings were largely routed by the locals by the
900s CE having largely stuck to their coastal forts. While they did marry
locals, they took most of them with them when they left. A lot settled on
Iceland. As for the Romans, there were never all that many in Britain,
particularly once Rome took her troops out. By the time the Empire was
crumbling, much of the administration of Britain was left in the hands of
Romanised locals.



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