A fascinating academic dispute between @thecelticist (@MaynoothUni @MU_Research) & Dr Lara Cassidy (@tcddublin) in a BBC History blog (@DJMusgrove) about how to interpret the "Newgrange incest story" that broke last week.https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/do-early-medieval-irish-texts-shed-light-prehistoric-incest/ …
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Language shift is ALWAYS the result of some sort of migration. Languages DO NOT TRAVEL, it is humans that travel. The question is only what the exact sociolinguistic conditions were that favoured or disfavoured a language change. One possible scenario is that a small elite...
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...came into the country and replaced (vulgo: snuffed out) the previous elite, and then exerted structural violence that in the long run led to the language shift. Like it happened in Ireland in the 2nd mill. AD.
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