12-09-2008, 02:06 PM
It would seem that Bede would have said yes.
The differences in appearance between people from Angeln and surrounding areas and the inhabitants of ancient Britain would have been hardly apparent, unlike the case between modern natives of Britain and people derived from the Indian sub-continent. Perhaps a more exact parallel would be between those people, second and third generation, who are descendants of Poles who came to Britain in WWII. I definitely feel that the vast majority of these would be considered as more English than Polish by themselves and the other English, and even by more recent Polish incomers.
The differences in appearance between people from Angeln and surrounding areas and the inhabitants of ancient Britain would have been hardly apparent, unlike the case between modern natives of Britain and people derived from the Indian sub-continent. Perhaps a more exact parallel would be between those people, second and third generation, who are descendants of Poles who came to Britain in WWII. I definitely feel that the vast majority of these would be considered as more English than Polish by themselves and the other English, and even by more recent Polish incomers.
Martin
Fac me cocleario vomere!
Fac me cocleario vomere!
