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Jeff Russell ([personal profile] jprussell) wrote in [personal profile] ecosophia 2024-08-19 06:39 pm (UTC)

Re: Axe & Plough, PIE Religion, "Spook Central," 4 More All Father Drafts, and Q on Checking Divinat

This reminds me of an old (by internet standards) video set to Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" with toy viking armor crudely photoshopped onto kittens. For anyone who does video, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/k9jTonnpRo0?feature=shared

Slightly more seriously, some recent genetic studies in Britain suggest that modern population genetics still track pretty closely to the medieval settlement patterns: modern Cornish people are mostly Cornish, Welsh Welsh, those from Essex and Sussex Saxons, and so forth. So, if you happen to know if any of your ancestors came from East Anglia, Northumbria, or Mercia (modern day Northeast England - Northumberland, Durham, Norfolk, Suffolk, and the Midlands), you might be able to figure out how much Anglo- is mixed with your Saxon (but the merger into a people that called themselves the "Anglo-Saxons" and now call themselves "the English" happened pretty early) . 23andme has incorporated these studies into their ancestry attributions, if you go for that kind of thing.

Cheers,
Jeff

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