Pertinax Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 An interesting piece here on Anglo-Saxon DNA as regards "British" genetic history. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viggen Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 An apartheid society existed in early Anglo-Saxon Britain, research suggests. Scientists believe a small population of migrants from Germany, Holland and Denmark established a segregated society when they arrived in England. The researchers think the incomers changed the local gene pool by using their economic advantage to out-breed the native population. The team tells a Royal Society journal that this may explain the abundance of Germanic genes in England today. full article at the BBC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 Then there are the Battenbergs and Saxe-Coburn- Hesse, aka The House of Windsor. But, we are all friends now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Clodius Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 The post Norman invasion also had a period of separation enforced by William I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 As you know I don't like to question things, but I wonder how big was the population that they surveyed? Did they include Scotland, Wales and Cornwall? And of course, Brigantia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 As the total British ( whole mainland inc Wales, Scotland ) population fluctuated from about 3.2 to 2.1 million from 1100 AD to the time of the Black Death finding a suitable partner of "breeding age" with appropriate teeth and limbs must have been a challenge. The small size of the overall gene pool vis a vis cohort size (of reproductive capability) must have been a big factor against "inter marriage". simplistic but not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 As the total British ( whole mainland inc Wales, Scotland ) population fluctuated from about 3.2 to 2.1 million from 1100 AD to the time of the Black Death finding a suitable partner of "breeding age" with appropriate teeth and limbs must have been a challenge. The small size of the overall gene pool vis a vis cohort size (of reproductive capability) must have been a big factor against "inter marriage". simplistic but not bad. What I was referring to was the size and places of the present British population that was given the DNA tests. If this statistic is not valid, the conclusion may be incorrect. Up until the middle of the last century, people did not move much more than 5 miles from the place of their birth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted July 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 If the BBC are involved ,its likely that they tested the population of a Station buffet in Hertfordshire and drew wideranging ethnographic conclusions from this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Another large german group was made of danes and other vikings, but it's not mentioned in the article despite the many place names left in East Anglia. I think the best city names are in Australia: Waga Waga, the city of Townsville like in the Power Puff Girls, Norseman and many others that I can not spell like Kalgoorllie and Coolgardie. Alice Springs is quite romantic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted July 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Another large german group was made of danes and other vikings, but it's not mentioned in the article despite the many place names left in East Anglia. I think the best city names are in Australia: Waga Waga, the city of Townsville like in the Power Puff Girls, Norseman and many others that I can not spell like Kalgoorllie and Coolgardie. Alice Springs is quite romantic. The a-Viking DNA groups have been the subject of previous work, and unsurprisingly showed up as strong unmingled populations around the Scottish Islands, N E England in particular and in parts of Ireland , The Isle of Man and NW Britain ( estuarine raiding). The mapping of the incidence Dupuytren's Contracture (which seems to be strongly linked to unadmixed N European blood groups) would probably yield some interesting results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted July 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 More in the Times today: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,...2281235,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 Does all this twaddle explain why the Brits go looking for an out of work Germanic type for a monarch when they have whacked one of their own? (If they have had one of their own in the last thousand years.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted July 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 Does all this twaddle explain why the Brits go looking for an out of work Germanic type for a monarch when they have whacked one of their own? (If they have had one of their own in the last thousand years.) The quote ,as regards our Glorious Monarchy, was " the English finding themselves without a natural heir to the throne , hired one". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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