Re: The Federated Kingdoms

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

il di le lun (aprils le 20) Andreus Govann yscreus:

> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:
> 
> > I read somewhere that in previous centuries Man was Brittish speaking, and
> > later conquered by the Irish.  (Perhaps Ray, if he knows better than me,
> > could corroborate or squash this rumour?)  If Brithenig and the Cambrian
> > State are formed before this (currently mythical) event takes place; then
> > would not Man be Brithenig speaking from the start?  I assume that the
> > Princes of Cambria wouldn't let such a strategic place go unoccupied --
> > regardless of what sort of Celtic is spoken there!  It would make a fine
> > staging area for either the Irish or the Scottish and faces about 45% of
> > our north-of-the-Severn coastline.  Were I a Cambrian Prince, that would
> > make me nervous.  On the other hand, it would make an even dandier staging
> > area for _us_ than for the Irish, and on the whole would be a Good Thing.
> > 
> Man would definitely be debatable territory between Cambrians, Vikings and
> Irish, especially in its early history.  While it is probably part of the
> Cambrian kingdom since the Chomro used it as a stopping-off point in their
> conquest of Ireland.  My own suspicion is that Man/Mon has an interesting
> local patois of Brithenig-influenced Manx Gaelic.

That sounds reasonable.  Just "probably"?  I should think it would be
"definitely", since it was used as a stopping-off point.

> 
> - andrew. 
> 
> Andrew Smith                                  <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>
> 
> MAN, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many
> accomplishments; still owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil
> and the fact that it rains.
> 							   - Anonymous
> 
> 
Padraic.