The Yorkshire stock

[Trog]

Northumbria could have been so much greater and stronger if not for the Viking raids that destabilised the area. Northumbria was one of the most influential areas of Celtic Christianity and has had a Catholic tradition as well. So I'm not slating Northumbria. However, it was an area that was quite a grey one between Scotland and England, and even in terms of language the distinctions haven't been all that clear. Many from the area recognise they have more similarities with Scots than with English. Northumbrians aren't really English at all.

[Osweo]

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

There were several aborted attempts at secession. Nothing else would do from Gwillaume's point of view except to utterly devastate the place to prevent any more trouble from our quarter...

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

WE...eeeeeeelllll.... You could say that for a comparison between upland Blackburnshire and the Moors of the West Riding... And for Salfordshire and the Don basin... There are dialect similarities. Mercian influence...

But more easterly parts are very different. And I CAN even feel it just as you climb onto the plateau, somehow.

Northumbrians aren't really English at all.

Seriously, Trog, gif yer'd a bin a feller, mi Geordie Grandad wudda floored yer fer tha.

[Lord Walker]

Just archiving people from Yorkshire... it would be interesting if we can confirm norwegian/danish strain in this stock.

I am half Yorkshire on mother side and proud yorkshire people are more likely to have danish norwegian genes my mother had golden blonde hair on her head when she was a baby i have it on my mustache and goatee according to SNPA north east of england have a high percentage of Tronders but theres also anglosaxons and borrebys and faelids my english grandfather is anglosaxon his father was anglosaxon and my grandfather grandfather my great grandfather was a Tronder

[Sahson]

I am half Yorkshire on mother side and proud yorkshire people are more likely to have danish norwegian genes my mother had golden blonde hair on her head when she was a baby i have it on my mustache and goatee according to SNPA north east of england have a high percentage of Tronders but theres also anglosaxons and borrebys and faelids my english grandfather is anglosaxon his father was anglosaxon and my grandfather grandfather my great grandfather was a Tronder

I doubt you on the Trønder component, I don't think it's as prevalent as you are attempting to claim. I think Borreby, and Halstätt was a stronger component.

[Lord Walker]

I doubt you on the Trønder component, I don't think it's as prevalent as you are attempting to claim. I think Borreby, and Halstätt was a stronger component.

yeah sorry my pics are low quality but im sure that i am Tronder Hardanger type long faced Troender acording to SNPA my mother looks like the tronder plates and i look like her

[Sahson]

okay time for a Yorkshire History lesson...

H.H. Asquith


William Bateson


Alan Bennett


Birbeck


Harry Brearley


Thoms Cook


John Harrison


Ted Hughes


Amy Johnson


Joseph Preistley


J.B. Preistley


August Pitt Rivers


John Smeaton


William Wilberforce


Harold Wilson

[Johnston]

okay time for a Yorkshire History lesson...

Harold Wilson

He and I have to be kindred! That is the male look in my family!

[Aviane]

Mostly Borrebys of Danish inspiration so yes some of them look inspired from Danish sources. This is the prime area of the Dane Law near the border with Scotland so it seems like Borreby and Faelid influences would be more common in this area as well as that type of blonde hair displayed by the one girl. Some of them do have a Keltic Nordic orientation but most of them are Borreby's and look more Danish or North German.

What you say in general here fits the description.

So in other words they are just Germanic Brits.

I could say some of this Danish/Northern German type fit easily into Scandinavia, The Lower Countries and parts of Northern France (Normandy, the Channel Islands, Picardy and Alsace).

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i <3 alan bennett!

[CordedWhelp]

Thread revival!

I wonder how much of the Norse input in Yorkshire and the northeast of England in general is Norse-Gael in addition to direct Norse-from-Scandinavia.

Uhtred (the Saxon, not the TA user) was claimed to be descent from Crinan of Dunkeld, which in turn would make him belonging to a Scottish sept of the Ui Neil. We like to think of the Saxons of northern England as being pure "Germans", but well...elites like to mix with other elites.