That ancient belief has been shown to be true by DNA (that's a Wikipedia source which I may need to double-check).
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Replying to @edwest
@edwestonline@hbdchick The belief in Milesians isn't true. Just coincidentally similar to real events in the Bronze Age.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AlWest13
@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."2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@edwestonline Modern Spanish and Irish aren't so close genetically. Not sure about early settlers.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AlWest13
@AlWest13@edwestonline no, but they're closer than, say, the irish and the greeks - which is the point. distant cousins.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@edwestonline True. But much as the Irish don't like to admit it, they are genetically much closer to Britons.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AlWest13
@AlWest13@edwestonline my point is just that there might be the tiniest of tiniest grains of truth in the myth. *really* old folk memory?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @hbdchick
@hbdchick@edwestonline Could be, but the account defo seems to be strongly influenced by post-Roman world, so impossible to tell.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AlWest13
@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.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@AlWest13 @edwestonline i meant PRE-christian. (late here!)
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