I think they will be forever guessing the only thing you can be sure of is they never called themselves Picts or spoke Picts, not in their minds anyway. Picts was the Roman name given to the painted people of Northern Britannia. A technicality but at least its conclusive. :)
I think you are correct, English has a lot of "modern" words which recently were added to the language many of which based on latin and greek words. But like you said the primitive English words are very similar to the other Germanic languages.
Anybody know much about the Scots language?
Y DNA and mtDNA are used to trace ancestry as they are unchanged for thousands of generations. But we are all made up of thousands of Genes that contribute to our physical traits and from many relatives that are not associated with either the Y or mtDNA.
For Example I look exactly like my...
Catchabus Thanks for the info, guess we are very distantly related hehe
RH NEG-I you can use your STR markers that you get from the Genographic project to predict your haplogroup at this website http://www.hprg.com/hapest5/hapest5b/hapest5.htm
I noticed in the Scottish thread you posted the pic...
R1A in Scotland and Northern Ireland could have been brought over by Norwegian Vikings. Not necessarily because of being pushed north by southern invasions.
Interesting. You always hear theories on European Homo Sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals so this throws this up in the air. Its been thought that Neanderthals had Red hair Blue eyes and infact passed those traits on to modern humans. Could it be that Neanderthals in Asia were different...
I absolutely love hefeweizen bier :good_job:
And on the Dutch, well its not in the list but I think their discovery of the West and North coasts of Australia (New Holland) by Europeans should rank up there.
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