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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?

I like hearing Gaelic both Irish and Scottish.

I2b1 has a hot spot in Sardinia no doubt from Norman invasion, I would think given its vicinity Sicily would have a few people with that line.

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...

99.7% that you are I1 According to he haplgroup predictor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_I1_(Y-DNA) You're a Viking Hehe

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...

Europe has the best food in the world!

Maciamo, what can you tell me about I2b1c as opposed to I2b1?

Surely Y DNA cannot explain phenotypes among human populations.

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 stuff how yes no. I had a 67 clade test done and it appears I am distinguished as I2b1c now.

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.

I really liked Edinburgh!

Here they are the same, Strippers, booze partying pub crawling etc etc except we call them Buck shows. the Bride also does a similar thing but they are called Hens Nights.

Cool i assume that you grew up in Texas? That is where the Wends migrated to in the States, as well as Canada and also the province of South Australia. Where im from.

no thats what i meant. im not a scot, i worded it wrong :good_job: In Lusatia they do, where they still speak the Upper and Lower Sorbian Slavic language and continue the Sorbian cultural activities.

Inventions from Australia taken from Wikipedia 1838 - Pre-paid postage - Colonial Postmaster-General of New South Wales, James Raymond introduced the world's first pre-paid postal system, using pre-stamped sheets as envelopes. 1843 - Grain stripper - John Ridley and John Bull of South Australia...

Hello brother :good_job: