[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle

[KEN ADAMS]

Part of the problem here is that German and english are said to have evolved from an Indo-Germanic language. That doesn't necessarily mean it has anything to do with India or German. That's just the term that is applied, we don't actually know anything about Indo Germanic because it stopped being spoken so long ago.
Carol is quite correct that England was invaded by Angles, Saxons and Jutes, but not for some strange reason the Frisians who seem to have been the most warlike and adventurous of all. But these three tribes invaded different parts of "England" leading to further confusion. But then they seem to have welded together, until the coming of the Vikings. The Vikings were actually the same people whose ancestors had originally formed the Angles and Saxons out of the earlier southern migrations that Carol refers to. The Vikings were from Norway ( the norse) who mainly first attacked then settled northern Scotland and Ireland. They were also from Denmark who were more active in eastern England. Before the battle of Hastings (actually a place called Battle several miles away) the Norse king Harald Hardrader had attacked the English Harold who defeated hardrader at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Nothing to do with Chelsea FC,in the North of England. This defeat
 effectively ended Norse power and they became part of Denmark. Norway only became an independant country again in the last century. 
Here endeth the lesson. Hope this helps. 




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Sent: Thursday, 15 January, 2009 3:16:38 AM
Subject: RE: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Carol's questions for New Steve Was: Tempest in a teapot/cup/kettle




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Carol responds:
I don't mean to argue, but if your history books say that the Angles
(not Anglos) spoke German, they're mistaken. They spoke some form of
*Germanic.* 

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I never said the Anglos or Saxon's spoke German. I'm saying that English
evolved from German, the first spoken language in Great Britain. That the
Anglo/Saxon and later the French influenced the language and it's
development. Old English (Beowolf) is an evolution from the language the
Germanic Tribes living there spoke, after the French occupation Old English
evolved into Middle English. Anyone who has ever spoken any form of English
in history is speaking a language that started as a form of German. That's
just the facts of it.

md

 

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