@TheGhostSleepi1 That’s simply not true the north is more Celtic then it is Germanic…. The “Vikings” left a lot less genetic imprint then you think.
William the conquerors genocide played a big in it.
@ThelastPretanni@WARHAMMERDADDY Would you say illustrative dna is accurate for Englishman I’m 51% east Anglian and 13% south east the rest small bits of Irish and West Midlands and my Middle Ages Germanic is 13%….. whereas my Iron Age and late antiquity is 55% and 47% (fit score gets worse on Middle Ages tbf)
@Tom_Rowsell@Tom_Rowsell slightly off topic but would you say illustrative dna is reliable for reading ancient dna? I hear it gets Germanic and insular celt mixed up with English dna?
@Tom_Rowsell@FortressLugh Why on illustrative dna does my Germanic on late antiquity go from 65% to then 13% on the Middle Ages…
Is that because of the mixing with the insular celts or does Germanic get mixed in with medieval France and they can’t tell the difference?
@mdf_michael@WarMonitor3 English people literally have more Briton ancestry then we do Anglo Saxon Germanic….. both tribes mixed and were both of Germanic origin
@AlfredMacBrutus@Sargon_of_Akkad We mixed with the Britons and pretty much everyone of English descent is majority Roman Britain so to call us Anglo Saxon is wrong.
@Pr0bP0stL1b Norman’s had no genetic imprint on 99% of the population expect the ruling class and nobility etc …. Norman’s made up 0.5% of the population and England had a population of just over 2 million.
@Steven_Strauss@post_liberal The Danes had similar dna and customs to the English at the time. (Angles were from Denmark)
The Norman’s left no dna on 99% of the English people as they only replaced the ruling class and the royals at the time,the Norman’s made up 0.5% of the population.