[Stones] Anglo-Saxon apartheid

[Ric]

hmm, not to mention Romans and Britons ... and Irish: what do you make of this from 5th century CE Silchester?
   
  http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/silchester/mark3.htm
   
  ric
  

littlestone <littlestone at supanet.com> wrote:
          Nigel wrote -
   
  "Efficiently restricting intermarriage for a whole four hundred years seems quite a feat in itself but i bet they didn't restrict interbreeding."
   
  Ay, that's true, they'd be a weird bunch if they didn't fancy the lass down the lane or the lass didn't fancy the Earl's youngest son. Children born in and out of wedlock between the two peoples would have sat on their mother's knee and heard tales and songs of the old times - no doubt spoken to them in the old language. The whole thing's very similar to the Anglo-Saxon/Norman relationship. 
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