A rare Anglo-Saxon gold coin went on display at the British Museum in February. A new study suggests that an apartheid-like system gave Anglo-Saxon newcomers to ancient Britain both economic and social superiority over native Britons, which led to the near eradication of the Britons' gene pool.
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The Socialist Gene???
Then the Normans came along and wiped out all the Anglo-Saxons. Now, enter the Muslims...
Sounds like pure suppositions to me
Seems to me apartheid is the wrong analogy. As conquerors, the Anglo-Saxons were top dogs, taking most of the wealth and having their pick of the women, which addresses the gene pool part. Had they segregated the races and actually lived in separate families in separate areas as in an apartheid system the gene mixing would have been more difficult.
Apartheid- and slavery - was the normal state of society until very recently.
I wonder who the “native” Britons mostly wiped out, enslaved, and dominated when they crossed into Britain?
And the Anglo Saxons weren’t treated all that kindly by the Norman French, when they invaded in turn. Can you say “esne”?
If only those nasty, evil white male Anglo Saxons had lived up to their obligations under the Geneva Convention... but, I understand the Helvetii were too busy planning to invade Switzerland to enforce it.
Anglo-Saxons didn’t invent these practices; they were a normal risk of life: kill the surving fighters; enslave the ones fit to work; divvy up the women, gold, and cattle; burn the rest.
besides Rome’s two major walls (Hadrian’s, and the Antonine Wall), there were:
best known-
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/offasdyke/index
related to this topic because:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1832542/posts?page=35#35
and, hundreds of years older-
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wansdyke/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/watsdyke/index
Clare Places: Islands: Mutton Island or Enniskerry
(9th century catastrophe in Ireland)
Clare County Library | prior to November 19, 2005 | staff writer
Posted on 11/18/2005 11:58:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1524751/posts
Exploration of underwater forest [Loch Tay]
BBC | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 | unattributed
Posted on 07/16/2008 10:42:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046747/posts
It recalls Mark Twain’s observation that the Civil War was started by Ivanhoe.
It was my impression that the Vikings ruled in England for several generations. For instance Cnut was a major English king in the early 11th century.
The Vikings had a great deal of influence on English Law through the manorial court system and the underlying concepts of tort under notions of “trespass”
Viking laws were framed in terms of “injuries” to the rights of others, valued as:
Physical rights of “were” (life or limb);
Psychological status rights of “mund” (peace or privacy); and
Ownership rights of private property.
Trial and judgement were rendered by a tribunal of chiefs or an manorial assembly - the predecessor of the jury. Each injury was compensable through the award of monetary damages determined by the social rank of the parties and the severity of the injury.
