Me, Keller Clark

I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA to an American father and a Canadian mother, who immigrated to the United States in 1996, of Scots-Irish and English descent. I moved to my mother's birthplace (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) when I was just 3 months old. From there we came to an Irish-Canadian town called O'Leary in Prince Edward Island, Canada. We then moved to Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina. We have just moved back to New Orleans where my family and I reside today.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Are English People Actually German?

 A debate has been held for many years if most English people (English-English) are actually German. English is a Germanic language, and the Anglo-Saxons and Jutes were from northern parts of Germany like Schleswig-Holstein in Denmark. There were Viking-Norse settlers in northern England, and the Normans who conquered the British (English) were in fact descended from Germanic-stock Vikings who settled in Normandy and mixed with the native French peoples. Vikings originally came from Poland into Scandinavia. So the early stages of English history was Polish conquering Scandinavians, Vikings conquering French, French conquering Germans, and Germans conquering English people. But what about the original Celts? But, you see, the Celts from the "truly Celtic" parts of the United Kingdom (e.g. Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Wales), were Britons, descended either from Austrian or Swiss Celts, another Germanic people, or the fishing tribes from Spain who conquered Ireland. So the Spanish defeated the Irish and Scottish. The Bretons in the King Arthur Legends were from Wales, different the Irish or Scottish Celts (Gaels, Picts, Hebrideans, Dalriadans, etc.), and came as native French people- from Brittany. It is confusing as the Brittany people conquered Wales, yet the Welsh Britons/Celts conquered Brittany. The native French people, however, not Brittany people or Normans or Vikings, were still Germanic, as were the Spanish: Once France was only inhabited by- you said it- Italians, such as the names Leon, etc. These Italians were conquered by literally German people, a French-Germanic tribe called the Franks, originally from Asia and descended from the Huns, a marauding Asian tribe who conquered Germany and the Saxons, Bavarians, and Prussians. So, in fact, English people can be Celtic, Pictish, Viking, Norman, Frankish, French, Polish, Gaelic, or even Asian (Huns.) It is confusing, but it is the truth.

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