>I apologize for the use of English, but there is no way that I could >write what follows in Welsh (at least not if I wanted to send this >message this year). > >On Fri, 16 Dec 1994, trk2 wrote: > (three pages later/tri tudalen) >Undoubtedly, over time, there was intermarriage between Saxons and Britons. >IMHO, one would be hardpressed to prove from this that "Anglo-Saxon" >culture has been lost any more than the older British culture. Furthermore, >in my interpretation of some writings by Celtic scholars, there may not >have been that great a gulf between the culture of Germanic peoples >along the North Sea coast and their Celtic neighbors in Gaul and Britain. >And, when we are talking about the average 6th century farmer, was there >really that big a difference in the day-to-day culture of the Germanic >peasant and the British peasant? My guess would be that the resultant >English culture was a mixture of Germanic and Celtic and that neither >has been "lost." Rather, a new culture was formed out of the two >(along with infusion from Danish, Norman, French, etc.) just as American >culture reflects English, Spanish, Celtic, African, and Native American >(along with too many others to list them all) roots. > >Nawr 'te. Fe ddweudes i digon. (before is a perfect example of "lip-service Welsh) Gofall! >Mike Ratcliffe Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! Cymraeg, os gwelwch yn dda! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry D. Leperlier 29 Ascal na Carraige, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Atha Cliath ....................................................... Ireland/Eire e-mail: hleperlier@internet-eireann.ie leperb93@irlearn.ucd.ie voice : +353-1-284 2080 -----------------------------------------------------------------------