| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? 13:47 - Jul 29 with 3247 views | blueasfook |
If you can trace your DNA back to one of the original tribes below then you can say you are of indigenous descent...
01: Caledones
02: Taexali
03: Carvetii
04: Venicones
05: Epidii
06: Damnonii
07: Novantae
08: Selgovae
09: Votadini
10: Brigantes
11: Parisi
12: Cornovii
13: Deceangli
14: Ordovices
15: Corieltauvi
16: Iceni
17: Demetae
18: Catuvellauni
19: Silures
20: Dubunni
21: Dumnonii
22: Durotriges
23: Belgae
24: Atrebates
25: Regni
26: Cantiaci
27: Trinovantes
These are the tribes that existed prior to the Roman invasion in 55 BCE which you could say was the first colonisation of Britain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/british_prehistory/iron_01.shtml
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| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 09:33 - Jul 30 with 221 views | blueasfook |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 09:22 - Jul 30 by DanTheMan |
Then we got invaded by the Normans, who were a mix of French and Norse cultures. |
Yeah I noted that - Vikings were defeated at 1066 at Stamford Bridge, Exactly same time as the Normans invaded. King Harold's forces were up north so the old Normans sneaked in. | |
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| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 10:51 - Jul 30 with 174 views | Keno |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 09:33 - Jul 30 by blueasfook |
Yeah I noted that - Vikings were defeated at 1066 at Stamford Bridge, Exactly same time as the Normans invaded. King Harold's forces were up north so the old Normans sneaked in. |
I bet the Vikings only lost cos of some dodgy referring by that ******* Welsh **** Clive Thomas
he was the reason we lost there as well |  |
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| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 11:56 - Jul 30 with 139 views | Churchman |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 09:17 - Jul 30 by blueasfook |
I don't think it's correct to say the Vikings didn't leave a mark. Many remained in the UK, converted to Christianity and settled - adding considerably to the gene pool, adding many words to the language and creating systems of democracy, adding new skills, technology, farming methods, etc. |
Guthrum became a Christian for political reasons. Christianity came to your general pagans more gradually. There was some inter marrying and obvious place names. The gene pool was extended to an extent, but by and large the structure of England remained Anglo Saxon. It even survived the Norman invasion (100s etc), despite influence on language and the imposition of Norman head honchos over the AS ones.
The biggest long term impact of the Viking invasions was the welding together of Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria as the Vikings were booted out to form what we know as England - Alfred, Edward, Athelflaed, Athelstan and the rest of the gang. Creation of Burghs, as in Aldeburgh etc.
I don’t think the pointy hat mob (a myth) added much by way of technology beyond ships and navigation. They struggled to scrape a living out of a bare country like what is now Denmark, but growing stuff here is and always was dead easy, which is why those not pillaging wanted to settle and why they didn’t worry about Scotland. Plenty of Saxons to enslave or sell off too. |  | | |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 12:04 - Jul 30 with 117 views | Keno |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 11:56 - Jul 30 by Churchman |
Guthrum became a Christian for political reasons. Christianity came to your general pagans more gradually. There was some inter marrying and obvious place names. The gene pool was extended to an extent, but by and large the structure of England remained Anglo Saxon. It even survived the Norman invasion (100s etc), despite influence on language and the imposition of Norman head honchos over the AS ones.
The biggest long term impact of the Viking invasions was the welding together of Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria as the Vikings were booted out to form what we know as England - Alfred, Edward, Athelflaed, Athelstan and the rest of the gang. Creation of Burghs, as in Aldeburgh etc.
I don’t think the pointy hat mob (a myth) added much by way of technology beyond ships and navigation. They struggled to scrape a living out of a bare country like what is now Denmark, but growing stuff here is and always was dead easy, which is why those not pillaging wanted to settle and why they didn’t worry about Scotland. Plenty of Saxons to enslave or sell off too. |
Sounds like a “what did the Viking’s ever do for us” moment | |
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| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 12:15 - Jul 30 with 93 views | Churchman |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 12:04 - Jul 30 by Keno |
Sounds like a “what did the Viking’s ever do for us” moment |
Absolutely! It’s an interesting debate over a complex picture. The ‘dark ages’ were not as dark as I was taught and what happened defines us, even if my knowledge of it is sketchy/poor. | | | |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 12:25 - Jul 30 with 87 views | blueasfook |
| Who exactly ARE the indigenous people of Britain? on 07:32 - Jul 30 by Benters |
Today I am driving past a Roman Circus well what’s left of it.
Just think all those years ago the Romans made Colchester a army town and still the army are near enough in the same place.
Well what’s not been sold for housing …. |
If you go down into the basement of the George Hotel, you can see the destruction layer - it's a layer of burnt debris from when the Iceni torched the place. | |
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