Published, formatted, edited & images added by Kenneth S. Doig
The account below is based upon semi-history, inaccurate histories and legend. Some or even all of it might be accurate, but much new archaeological, DNA evidence have change the generally accepted picture, or at least, it has made people to question or reconsider their historical beliefs on Northwest Europe. There are so many theories going around. The most absurd is the "Proto-English theory that almost all of eastern Britain had been long Germanic-speaking before the accepted, traditional invasions of Hengist and Horsa c. 449 AD and even pre-dating Roman Britain by about 500 years. The proponents of this theory never state how the pre-Anglo-Saxon and the pre-Scandi-Anglian languages ever got to Britain. After much reading this is my current conclusion in a nutshell regarding the Anglo-Saxons. Dolichocephalic Indo-Europeans of the depigmented Mediterranean race arrive in the area (c. 2000 BC) of the sparsely populate southern Scandinavia. They mixed with very similar-looking blond, non-IE peoples. These people were members of the upper-paleolithic aboriginal races to NW Europe, namely the Bruenn, and Borreby. These people were incorporated into the pre-Germanic IE society. The least intermixing occurred in south-central to central Sweden and the eastern valleys north of Oslo, where the vast majority of the population is still virtually identical to the ancient, Iron-Age, Indo-European/Germanic Nordic. As one moves away from the central Swedish core, we see more admixtures, stabilized hybrid races, like the Trønder race in western Norway, from intermarriage of the IE (Hallstatt) Nordic with the non-IE Bruenn race. To the untrained, these people look Nordic, and in my opinion have been Germanic for over 3000 years. The same with the other Hybrids and the unmixed Borreby race in SW Norway, Denmark, Northern Germany, etc. I believe that this Indo-European became recognizedly Germanic c. 500 BC, and the phonology was dranatically altered by the aforementions peoples unknown speech/es. I believe that the number in the Germanic substrate-theory is over-estimated, I'd guess maybe one-tenth, not two-thirds of the Germanic lexicon is of non-IE origin. The Germanic speaking people expanded from their Scandinavian urheimat, sometimes just slightly inching southwards, sometimes going on long-distance raids, like the Cimbrians or Goths. I believe that the Ingvaeonic languages got their distinctive character from a non-Celtic, separate, unrecorded, now extinct family of Indo-European spoken from Frisia (where the Anglo-Saxon Nordish type was formed, a hybrid of Bruenn and Nordic) along the North-sea coast thru the Netherlands, through Belgium to Northern France. The peoples of this group confused ancient historians, Caesar could not tell if the Belgae were Celts or Germanics. The Belgae themselves were unsure. This hypothetical language, called Nordwestblock,(NWB) was probably quite close and possibly mutually intelligible with very ancient Celtic and proto- and common-Germanic. This group, the NWB were assimilated into both Germanic cultures to the north and Celto-Roman cultures in the south. They appear to have been a Nordish racial type with a small minority of Alpines.
One thing is certain, one must keep an open mind, but the Germanic peoples are still one nation ethnically, made up of very similar white races. We are a people. There exists race.
By K.S. Doig
