I think that's what I mean. Occasionally someone will ask me if I'm descended from Saxons, Normans, Vikings or 'native' English.. My friend knows he's from Scottish/Viking stock.. Can't there be a noun for someone with Saxon genes if AS has got to go?
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Regular people probably still spoke Pictish for a long time though. And you got Bernicia, which may have been a British kingdom given the name, and it was in SW Scotland. But in the written sources they are Anglian/English.
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Language and identity shifts and moves. We need to stop thinking in terms of descent. It’s never been about descent. If I look at my genealogy most of my ancestors are from Europe, but all over. Modern identity cannot be mapped to medieval. Or in some cases generations.
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