"allan connochie" <allan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Bob and Doris Jones" <bobianjones@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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).
Allan, whoever published this article was greatly mistaken. In fact there
is
an undeniable Gwyddelic contribution to the gene pool in Brigantia.
Gwyddel
not in the sense of Irish, but in the sense of the pre-Beaker people
population of Neolythic farmers. The Gwyddels were almost as old as the
Picts and the Iberians, but they were neither Picts nor Iberians.The so
called "red haired" people is an old "red herring" that goes back to the
18th. century antiquarians.It is just rubbish.There is no evidence of a
Pictish population outside Scotland.
>
> 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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