Re: Re[2]: [tied] NWB

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From: Brian M. Scott

To: fournet.arnaud

Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:57 AM

Subject: Re[2]: [tied] NWB

At 2:19:32 AM on Sunday, September 16, 2007, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

> Britons were slaughtered by Anglo-Saxons and had to take
> refuge elsewhere, i.e in Brittany,

This is at best a considerable oversimplification. There
are place-names containing OE <wealh> 'a Welshman', usually
in the gen. pl. (<weala>), all over Britain, indicating the
continued presence of communities of Britons.

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Moreover, if I remember correctly, British migration to
Brittany began in Roman times and was mostly from the
southwest, which the Anglo-Saxons reached relatively late.
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A.F :

Bretons began emigrating into (France) Bretagne after year 500 AD,

at a time, when Roman Empire was finished.

In fact, any Celtic language probably was wiped out for about a century

between the end of Gaulish, with 400 AD as the most optimistic datation,

and 500 AD, for the start of Breton invasion.

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Brian