The Yorkshire stock

[Treffie]

He's from Lancashire, not Yorkshire.

[GeistFaust]

He's from Lancashire, not Yorkshire.

He looks to be in the Dalo Faelid/Borreby spectrum Danish or French Norman inspired.

[GeistFaust]

There is County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland before the border mate.

Yes I am quite sorry for not specifying I meant near the border areas not on the border.

[Peasant]

The borders bloody miles away.

[Trog]

There is County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland before the border mate.

He's right in a sense, for those areas you mention were once part of Scotland. So Yorkshire would naturally be the border.

I visited there in October, I was in mainly Pontefract and I agree, the people seemed much blonder than I am used to.

[GeistFaust]

He's right in a sense, for those areas you mention were once part of Scotland. So Yorkshire would naturally be the border.

I visited there in October, I was in mainly Pontefract and I agree, the people seemed much blonder than I am used to.

That is what I meant at one time they had the border reivers and they would either side with the Scottish or English most of the Border reivers who came from the border areas where of Anglo Saxon and Danish Norse descent. There is a high rate of blonde hair in the northeastern part of England and parts of Eastern Scotland especially the southern portion.

[Peasant]

See, hes talking about the current border. And back around the time of the Danelaw, I am pretty sure the border was well north of the Tees. Even further than it is now on the east of England.

EDIT: And hes not talking about the border of the Danelaw, he's talking about Dalo-Faelid + Borreby French Norman Border Reivers again.

[Sahson]

[Osweo]

My home region of Lancashire has Yorkshire breathing down its neck, so we know these buggers quite well.

The stereotype is that of the 'Yorkshire Pie-Head', and presumably refers to a pronounced Borreby strain.

However, it's a very large and varied place is Yorkshire, which will correspondingly mean slightly different substrate proportions in different parts.

There were compact British settlements absorbed, and the Danes will have only overlaid an already flourishing Anglian and Anglicised population...

Nice map, but as usual Strathclyde is ridiculously exaggerated. Galloway might rather better be shown as of 'the Isles', and the Eden Valley of Cumberland was pretty Norse, and (with much of Dumfriesshire) might better be considered an annex of Jorvik at the time.

Oh, and Trog, don't be retarded.

I'm often of half a mind that the ENTIRETY of Northumbria would have been better off joining the Scots when the Normans seized Southern England, however... We would have dominated the place utterly. Our cousins in Lothian as good as did anyway, but we all together might really have given both London AND the Gaels a run for their money then.

[Sahson]

I'm often of half a mind that the ENTIRETY of Northumbria would have been better off joining the Scots when the Normans seized Southern England, however... We would have dominated the place utterly. Our cousins in Lothian as good as did anyway, but we all together might really have given both London AND the Gaels a run for their money then.

Wasn't England unified at the time of the invasion of William???

In response to Treffie, Yorkshire and Lancashire are very similar, as well as in accents too. I sometimes have trouble differentiating the two...

The English areas I tend to see, or associate England are the red ones...