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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I honestly can't tell if you're trolling or just saying completely baseless stuff.

Viking raiders didn't care about the colour of your skin, not to mention the English are visually just as light in tone. Saying it's the root of white supremacy is baseless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Normans replaced the Britons who were darker

The Welsh are the only dark people left on the Isles and even they aren’t homogeneous in that anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I can't even tell if you're talking about Brittany or England. The Normans pushed out the Celtic bretons in Brittany but that has nothing to do with the isles where the West Germanic angles and Saxons pushed out the native Celtics. There the Normans just came up to rule.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

England

Britain is because Rome called the people that lived there Britons

Predating Brittany

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Then the Normans did not replace anybody in England other than rulers. The angles already did that, thus "angle land." The Normans pushed out the bretons in Brittany, or northern France.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You’re right, it was the Angles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

And the one thing to keep in mind with those tribes is many of them were actually mixed with lineages from the celts themselves because the britons were actively migrating down to armorica and the Iberian peninsula https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorica

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

British.

Edit; Im curious as to why this is getting downvoted.