The English and the Celts - no genocide?

[ambrosius]

The germanic speakers in the east were unaffected by the plague

Please explain why you think this would be the case. Were the rats afraid of the Germanic language?

Well, one possible reason might be that the plague was brought by
Byzantine trading ships into Romano-British ports in the West of Britain.
This would explain why the Britons caught the disease. The fact that
Anglo-Saxons did not catch it implies that there was no contact between
the two ethnic groups, does it not? 8) This might be corroborated by
the fact that Anglo-Saxons did not learn to speak Brittonic - or any
words of Brittonic, appart from the three accepted as being Brittonic.
It might also be corroborated by Gildas's claim that the Britons became
refugees from the Anglo-Saxons. It might further be corroborated by
Ine's Law stating that Britons were a separate ethnic group from
Anglo-Saxons. It might yet still be corroborated by the English place-
names within English territory denoting wholly British enclaves. :wink:

Ambrosius / Mike