Re: [tied] NWB

The premise is that Eastern Britons spoke non-Celtic
languages, while Western Britons were pushed into
Wales, Cornwall and Brittany


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> Britons were slaughtered by Anglo-Saxons
> and had to take refuge elsewhere,
> i.e in Brittany,
> The lack of Celtic substrate is no wonder.
> You needn't any Belgian to take part in this.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:26 PM
> Subject: [tied] NWB
>
>
> On Wikipedia I saw an article that claims that the
> Eastern Britons were Belgae who spoke languages
> closely related to Ango-Saxon, which accounts for
> the
> general lack of Celtic substrate in Old English.
> It
> claims that no Celtic inscriptions are found in E.
> Briton. My impression was that it saw Belgae as
> essentially a Celtic influenced form of Germanic
> and
> similar to Frankish.
> I'd like to hear from the rest of you regarding
> this
>
>
>

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