That ancient belief has been shown to be true by DNA (that's a Wikipedia source which I may need to double-check).
@AlWest13 @edwestonline ...atlantic seaboard (accd'g to sykes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Sykes#Blood_of_the_Isles …), so the two populations are definitely "cousins."
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@hbdchick@edwestonline Modern Spanish and Irish aren't so close genetically. Not sure about early settlers. -
@AlWest13@edwestonline no, but they're closer than, say, the irish and the greeks - which is the point. distant cousins. -
@hbdchick@edwestonline True. But much as the Irish don't like to admit it, they are genetically much closer to Britons. -
@AlWest13@edwestonline my point is just that there might be the tiniest of tiniest grains of truth in the myth. *really* old folk memory? -
@hbdchick@edwestonline Could be, but the account defo seems to be strongly influenced by post-Roman world, so impossible to tell. -
@AlWest13@edwestonline some early christian stuff slipped in there as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn#Origins … but, yeah, difficult to tell. -
@AlWest13@edwestonline i meant PRE-christian. (late here!)
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