Son of a gun-ner wrote:I'm a mongrel, half Welsh, a bit of Scottish, and whatever the mix English is made from, probably some Italian, Danish and French from way back lol.
So, on that, I'm probably more Welsh than anything. I used to follow and admire the Welsh Rugby team, then they sort of lost it for ages and ages, I was so pleased for them when they made a recent come back, and gave proper competition.
Mick.
A few observations on British ancestry. The 'Normans' (as the name suggests) were Scandinavian in origin, not French. The Danes and the English (anglo-saxons) are closely related; indeed all the indigenous groups in Britain (even the English)
share common ancestry with all other North European population groups, and the majority of those who consider themselves 'English' (including expatriates and exports), or Germanic, still share a genetic legacy from the ancient Britains (Picts, Celts and 'Beaker' folk). What's more,
all Europeans and Asians share up to 5% of their legacy DNA with Europe's original Neanderthal inhabitants (interestingly, Sub-Saharan Africans 0%).
Maybe it's our 'caveman' neanderthal ancestry that makes us stomp around, and make uncomfortable company for the family, when our team loses !
In fact, this bullish Neanderthal stereotype is probably based on myth. They probably had bigger brains than we have, and didn't walk around in knuckle-dragging fashion, dragging the spouse by her hair
In reality, they probably did cryptic crosswords on the cave walls when they lost the (inflated) bladder kicking match against a neighbouring tribe.

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.