there was certainly a mindset of Anglo-Saxons vs the Britons even in the day but the actual process of the AS mov't into Britain is not...
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NeolithicSheep
...clear cut, and there were a lot of processes of acculturation and assimilation happening.
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And angry Britons lurking in the mountains of Cymru
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True, but even then: at least one "Welsh" kingdom was founded by the Irish, who frequently AFAIK attacked the Britons there and tried to...
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...set up shop. Many did, and then became Britons/Welsh eventually.
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The British Isles are a whole situation of changing identities and what have you.
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Granted all we have are the words of an elite and conflicting material cultures and place/name evidence. Who even knows about regular ppl.
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And honestly people who were hardline oppositional to another ethnic group may have had grandparents in said ethnic group.
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Incredibly difficult to understand how they identified since so much of how we traditionally understood this has been upended.
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Such as burial rites or goods, that kind of thing.
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If it wasn't obvious I have been knee-deep in this medieval identity shit for awhile lol. It is fresh on the brain.
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