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    Author: * gaius c Maximus - 1 Post on this thread out of 15 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Sep 26, 2005 - 03:12

    CENTURYS BEFORE THE ROMANS ARRIVED IN BRITTIAN THE PEOPLE SPOKE A GALLIC DILECT THAT DEVOLPED FROM THE ANCIENT CELTS UNLIKE IN GREECE WERE THE ROMANS ADOPTED GREEK AND IN JUDA WERE ARIMAYIC WAS ALSO ADOPTED IN BRITTIAN LATIN WAS THE OLNY SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORD OF THE ROMANS IN BRITTIAN FROM 43AD TO 430AD THE OLD TONGES SURVIVED TRUE BUT WERE LOOKED DOWN ON BUY THE ROMANS WHO TRYED THER BEST TO EDUCATE THE NATTIVES IN THE 3RD CENTURY LANDS IN WESSEX WERE GIVEN TO THE SAXONS THESE WERE THE FIRST ENGLISH SPEAKEN PEOPLE IN BRITTIAN AND OVER THE CENTURES THE ROMAN NAME BRITTIANIA WOULD BE REPLACED BY THESE MERCNARES FROM JUTLAND IN THE 5TH CENTURY THE ROMANS LEFT FOR A TIME THE CELTS AND THE SMALL TRIBE OF SAXONS LIVED PEACFULLY BUT IN THE MID FITH CENTURY MORE ANLGO-SAXONS BEGAN TO ARRIVE AND FOUGHT FOR CONTROL OF SOUTHERN EGLAND TILL ALL THE CELTS AND THE FEW ROMANS WHO STAYED BEHIND WITH THE CELTS WERE FORECED TO WALES AND SOUTH WEST ENGLAND!


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