General Chat

That's because one HAS to pause for breath in the 'real world' footie, otherwise one keels over blue in the face.

brings on the oxygen

loses the plot >>>>>>>

Apparently a great number of 'indigenous' British came from the Basque region ( don't ask me where I read that this week but I did lol).

I may have some Norman on both sides I think, one side via Ireland.

It seems we have a lot to thank then for and granted we did not live through them times so am a little disadvantaged thank goodness the Saxons had no written language for most of their time the Normans appear to change that what the Saxons did though which is lovely is they gave us symbols most we use today isnt that lovely Joy

one of my side is viking

the other i don't know yet

I do have an uncle Norman on Mum's side but he is only by marriage and is is rather pasty to be anything other than English

No sure I could be doing with Viking blood but then I guess with all the Norse, Danes and Jutes around one can never be quite sure

Well the oral tradition was very much the Irish way also, the travelling story tellers. Perhaps that is why Irish writers seem to have such a way with words, telling the stories around the country they were probably altered for each 'audience' and by each story teller ...not a 'set story' as it would have been written down. :)

with that theory maybe Im a better orator than a writer lol rose gos against the grain for someone like me but heres the thing wen I was a lil un my grandad went to Blarney on st. Pads day went up the the castle , hung upside down outside the window n kissed the stone for me to giv me eloquence of speech bu thats another story

I have to admit that on mi dads side they came from Scandinavia. Travelled round by Ireland and went to Normandy. Now when William the conk needed archers to bop Harold he couldn't have the best archers as they were British so he used the next best from where mi dads family came from. Baglin means bowman. So it was possibly one of my rellies who shot Harold through the eye. In recognition the Baglins were given land in Gloucestershire Our line moved in the 1850s poss by rail this time and not by longboat and ended up in Gods own county. Elaine.

fd that very interesting bout the archers unfortunatly Im rubbish at that sport my step~mums family were granted lands in Lincolnshire following the batte Barrand was their name descend from Richard Williams half brother so we told my hubbys lot Bagod scoundrels methinks x