Re: The Federated Kingdoms

[raybrown@macline.co.uk (Raymond A. Brown)]

At 15:40 19/4/98, Padraic Brown wrote:
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>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?)

No, I don't know for certain.  But I think it's very likely.  Remember the
earliest written Welsh comes from Strathclyde in modern Scotland.  At one
time, except for the mysterious Picts of NE Scotland,
Scotland-England-Wales was Brittonic speaking.  The Gaels arrived in
Scotland at about the same period as Saxons & related Germanics were
spreading across England (6th cent. AD).  Certainly the Gaelic settlement
in Man dates from these migrations.  There was also Nordic settlement
there.

Ray.

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