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Isn't Breton culture really rooted in ancient Cornish culture, not the historical continental Celtic culture?
by senderista 7y ago
Isn't Breton culture really rooted in ancient Cornish culture, not the historical continental Celtic culture?
- ceejayoz 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_nations > The six territories widely considered Celtic nations are Brittany (Breizh), Cornwall (Kernow), Wales (Cymru), Scotland (Alba), Ireland (Éire) and the Isle of Man (Mannin or Ellan Vannin).
- abrowne 7y agoVery roughly, Britons were the main population in southern Great Britain (roughly England, Wales and Scotland to the Firth of Forth), but were "squeezed" during the Anglo-Saxon settlement into more isolated pockets — Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall — and some crossed over to Brittany. How much of of the "squeeze" was population replacement as opposed to languistic and cultural change is up for debate.