Crossing the Waters: Britain in the Dark Age
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Transition to the New Language
No one, none of these chroniclers ever said, o my god, we were invaded by a mass of frisians. The transition to the new language probably was not because some one subjugated the country by force and said, you were not allowed to speak welsh or britonic. For whatever reason, it was an easy language to learn. It was easy to use to communicate between groups. And so it took over little by little in a gradual and peaceable way. Some linguists have pointed out that the previous existing celtic languages didn't just disappear. They were not wiped out. But rather, there are aspects of celtic intax like the use of
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