A thought occured to me on the bus into Perth a wee while ago. She couldn;t have been thinking of the Isle of Man?
There was a report on (maybe?) a science paper a year or two back that suggested the DNA of the areas, such as East Anglia, with the longest history of English royal lines actually have a 'negligible' anglo-saxon dna record; that the population is largely that which existed there before the ANglo-Saxons arrived ie British/Welsh or Celtic, though several people have pointed out that the term Celtic points to a common culture that extended over large areas of Europe for many hundreds of years until the Romans wiped it out. There were no Celts as I was taught at school.
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Date: 2018-04-24 01:17 pm (UTC)There was a report on (maybe?) a science paper a year or two back that suggested the DNA of the areas, such as East Anglia, with the longest history of English royal lines actually have a 'negligible' anglo-saxon dna record; that the population is largely that which existed there before the ANglo-Saxons arrived ie British/Welsh or Celtic, though several people have pointed out that the term Celtic points to a common culture that extended over large areas of Europe for many hundreds of years until the Romans wiped it out. There were no Celts as I was taught at school.