Genetics and the Anglo-Saxon Migrations

I am German from the North West part Westfalia..... there is a town near by called Beverungen the counterpart have been found in Sussex near Eastborne the name was Beverington.... After several trips to the southeast and west of England I met many people who looked similar as northwest Germans or Dutch.... I would guess the Anglosaxon DNA is still alive..... we are very much connected.... ❤️🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I like this teacher, wish I could follow more of his lectures. I don’t care how old. I trust the genetics combined with ancient artifacts much more than just genetic studies at this point and time.

The Vikings did have a significant impact on the genetics and population of Britain. The main impact was from Danish not Norwegian Vikings. Genetically Danish Vikings are inseparable from Anglo-Saxons so it is hard to see the different waves of immigration.

I enjoyed your English History Lecture very much. You're a great teacher. 😎

Had to pause because of the strangeness of this situation. Through this channel I've listened to a bunch of decade-old lectures from a particular professor at a Turkish university. Love it.

My understanding was the Celts did not farm heavy clay soils. But the Anglo-Saxons had developed suitable plows on the North-German Plain. Thus, the Celts and the Anglo-Saxons were neighbours, occupying different types of land. The clay soi;s were more productive, which gave the Anglo-Saxons an economic advantage.

I think in the North of England, Celtic survival was greater. There is a sheep counting system there that starts with "Yan, Tan, Tethra etc." which are Brittonic numbers. The Romano-British kingdoms like Rheged and Elmet survived into the 600s and 700s.

What a fantastic tutor that man is ! Those students are very lucky.

The French talk of hors de sol and de souche. Meaning respectively those from outside the sovereign territory and those of a native, ethnic root. It's interesting that even in the early years after the fall of Rome Europeans not only had a distinct notion of the two. But also that an intimate connection exists between peoples and the land they inhabit, and those that do not.

Very enriching and informative. Thank you for posting.

Very interesting. Great lecturer...I could listen to him for hours.

The talk is from 2009 so the speaker discusses a fairly oldfashioned method of using Y-chromozones of living people to predict medieval migratrions. Nevertheles he has a nice discussion on how historians work with genetic results. He starts talking genetics at 23:20, and the two articles are introduced at 30:20.

Love that this is 10? Years old and already partly outdated. Shows just how wild & interesting genetics into archeology is.

Loved this. Tracking where we’ve been through our cooties is funny and incredible.

This educator does a great class presentation

There was a study in 2012-2015 by Oxford looking at the genetics of the British population. They found that the English were more related to people in Southern Holland than they were to people in Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Their conclusion was that the Southeast English were overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon, while people in West and North England were more or less identical to people in Wales and West Country, and people in Central England were in the middle. There was a Channel 4 documentary called 'The Faces of Britain' that covered it. However, they changed their minds later on after they tested Denmark, Prussia, Friesland and France. Most of the Anglo-Saxon signal in Southern Holland was coming from Belgium and Northern France, and they found that the Southeast English were more related to people in Wales, Scotland and Ireland than they were to people in Scandinavia, Prussia or Friesland. The conclusion was then that the English were a product of their environment, somewhere in between France, Ireland and the North Sea, similar to Southern Holland, with Anglo-Saxon ancestry being about 40%. I like this study because it deconstructs what people often assume about ancestry. There was always a connection between England and the Low Countries, plenty of trade, cultural exchange etc.

Our Paternal Grandmother’s Father’s people come from this area of Midlands England and have Norman DNA as well as Welsh & English: The Norman is from Denmark to Normandy and York settlements. “York” comes from the name “Jorvik”. This information came from our DNA tests. Also our Scottish DNA on our Dad’s father’s line comes partly from Norway as well as “PICT” which is Celtic and the term Picture is a name given to Scots because they painted pictures on their skin, especially for battle, with bright blue coloring. Evidence in last name makeup will be “son” on the end of the father’s first name. That is a Norse style name. They will, in Norway also put Dotter or fatter on the end of the father’s first name for their girl children to this day. They also used to alternate with the mother’s last name to keep both names in a family line. So a son of Henry becomes Hendry, Henderson, Hendrison, and such, to keep it interesting. So if you show that son or Sen on the end look for a Norse line in your family.

I think sometimes people miss the obvious, most of the military forces posted in Britain from the 3rd century onwards were from the near continent especially the low countries such as the Batavians and Tungrians, hard to believe this didnt have a significant contribution to the DNA of England

4:43 - 5:19 No, it doesn’t suggest that. In the eastern US, Anglo-Americans completely displaced the Indigenous Americans, but the Anglos still used plenty of Indigenous words and place names.