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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Normans replaced the Britons who were darker

The Welsh are the only dark people left on the Isles and even they aren’t homogeneous in that anymore

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't even tell if you're talking about Brittany or England. The Normans pushed out the Celtic bretons in Brittany but that has nothing to do with the isles where the West Germanic angles and Saxons pushed out the native Celtics. There the Normans just came up to rule.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

England

Britain is because Rome called the people that lived there Britons

Predating Brittany

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then the Normans did not replace anybody in England other than rulers. The angles already did that, thus "angle land." The Normans pushed out the bretons in Brittany, or northern France.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

You’re right, it was the Angles

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And the one thing to keep in mind with those tribes is many of them were actually mixed with lineages from the celts themselves because the britons were actively migrating down to armorica and the Iberian peninsula https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorica

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