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Someone for instance who was descended from the peoples living in Britain and whose ancestors spoke Brittonic, but eventually decided to speak Old English etc. may well have just ID'd as English because language was more of a marker of ID.
Thanks for the input Admiral much appreciated!
Surely this isn't the case in areas such as Cumbria? I understand that the north west had a strong irish/scottish/Norse identity and didn't mix with 'England' linguistically or genetically until the late middle ages, right?
This is a long and difficult topic but I’ll try to make this clear. In the Neolithic period there was a large scale migration of peoples that populated Europe and either assimilated or displaced the Paleolithic peoples. However, there is no evidence of a mass migration later on.
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