"Bob and Doris Jones" <bobianjones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> hawker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> > ... I am publi****ng it as I go along so there will be a need for
> > constant updates.
IMHO the huge percentage of red-haired people
> in Brigantia is a direct genetic legacy of the Picts (the highest
> percentage of anywhere in the world).
Fairytale stuff. The various Pictish kingdoms were north of the
Forth/Antonine/Clyde line. The land of the Brigantes was way to the south
in northern England. Seperating them were the Brittonic tribes of the
Southern Uplands and central Scotland, some of whom 'may' have been more
closely connected to the Brigantes in pre-Roman tribes. The later northern
British kingdoms, especially in the west, certainly traversed what is now
the Scottish/English border, but these kingdoms were Brittonic units and
had
nothing to do with any Pictish expansion. No such southerly expansion
happened perhaps apart from in the Firth of Forth area. The attacks
during
the Barbarian Conspiracy by Scots and Picts in the area in question were
just massive raids and not conquests of territory. There was probably
little, if any, significant genetic difference between the Brigantes and
Pictish peoples. The Picts only emerged from the northern British tribes
who remained outwith the Roman Empire. If however you are right and red
haired people in the land of the Brigantes are descended from people who
lived in, what is now parts of Scotland, then it's much more likely that
they are a product of folk movement during the Industrial Revolution and
after.
Allan
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