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Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topographical Nomenclature.
ANGLO-SAXON HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY TOPOGRAPHICAL NOMENCLATURE .
( Continued from p . 496 ) .
ON THE INTERMIXTURE OF THE WELSH POPULATION WITH THE
ANGLO-SAXON . . There are mixed races in these islands to a very great extent , ' and at various periods there have been . Thus , for instance , along the line of contact of the Welsh and English races in the west there is a mixture of race , though not to the degree that is supposed .
The populations in some places come in positive contact with a Welsh populatioii on one side and an English population on the other ; in some places a band of mixed races is interposed between / in other places groups of the pure races are interposed between the main populations of the west and east ; but a more common arrangement to he found , is a large group of Welsh within the English bounds , as in Shropshire , and small groups of English in Welsh . These - . latter groups answer to the distinguishing term used in political
geography , of enclaves . So long as the English invaders retained their original spirit and their national religion , intermarriage with the Welsh was exceptional , and became virtually impossible ; hut when , from various causes , as from the Welsh being protected by strong natural defences , and from the English having been converted to Christianity ~ r ~ from the , . English states having become the playthings of ambitious aldermen and kings , or contending dynasties , instead of being simply the aggregations of warlike freemen—when , from the English being settled
down and passing from the state of sea kings to that of warriors and herdsmen , and thence to the state of husbandmen—when , in fact , the commonwealths on the east coast , as East Anglia , Essex and Kent , for instance , were shut in , and without contact or conflict with the Welsh— -then political relations with the Welsh became practicable . While the national worship prevailed the Welsh were looked upon as heathens , strangers , unholy people , with whom the idea of mixing the blood of the sons of Tur , or of the godlike and kingly sons of
Wed en , was profanation ; and though for a political object a daughter might be given away to a Welsh king or chief , inasmuch as her offspring would only be heathen , yet an English atheling would not wed a Welsh princess , or receive her as a concubine . Those who examiiie the pedigrees in Lapponberg , will find that the marriages of the kingly families of Weden scarcely include one Welsh alliance . The kingly families of Germania and France were sought for brides , but not those of the neighbouring Welsh ; and even that memorable case
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Anglo-Saxon History Illustrated By Topographical Nomenclature.
ANGLO-SAXON HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY TOPOGRAPHICAL NOMENCLATURE .
( Continued from p . 496 ) .
ON THE INTERMIXTURE OF THE WELSH POPULATION WITH THE
ANGLO-SAXON . . There are mixed races in these islands to a very great extent , ' and at various periods there have been . Thus , for instance , along the line of contact of the Welsh and English races in the west there is a mixture of race , though not to the degree that is supposed .
The populations in some places come in positive contact with a Welsh populatioii on one side and an English population on the other ; in some places a band of mixed races is interposed between / in other places groups of the pure races are interposed between the main populations of the west and east ; but a more common arrangement to he found , is a large group of Welsh within the English bounds , as in Shropshire , and small groups of English in Welsh . These - . latter groups answer to the distinguishing term used in political
geography , of enclaves . So long as the English invaders retained their original spirit and their national religion , intermarriage with the Welsh was exceptional , and became virtually impossible ; hut when , from various causes , as from the Welsh being protected by strong natural defences , and from the English having been converted to Christianity ~ r ~ from the , . English states having become the playthings of ambitious aldermen and kings , or contending dynasties , instead of being simply the aggregations of warlike freemen—when , from the English being settled
down and passing from the state of sea kings to that of warriors and herdsmen , and thence to the state of husbandmen—when , in fact , the commonwealths on the east coast , as East Anglia , Essex and Kent , for instance , were shut in , and without contact or conflict with the Welsh— -then political relations with the Welsh became practicable . While the national worship prevailed the Welsh were looked upon as heathens , strangers , unholy people , with whom the idea of mixing the blood of the sons of Tur , or of the godlike and kingly sons of
Wed en , was profanation ; and though for a political object a daughter might be given away to a Welsh king or chief , inasmuch as her offspring would only be heathen , yet an English atheling would not wed a Welsh princess , or receive her as a concubine . Those who examiiie the pedigrees in Lapponberg , will find that the marriages of the kingly families of Weden scarcely include one Welsh alliance . The kingly families of Germania and France were sought for brides , but not those of the neighbouring Welsh ; and even that memorable case