what happened between the Anglo-Saxons and the Celts?

[zerozero]

this can't have been pretty brehs so before these anglo-germanic dudes took over north america and conquered the rest of the planet, they took over their own island?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Excidio_et_Conquestu_Britanniae

Concerning her obstinacy, subjection and rebellion, about her second subjection and harsh servitude; concerning religion, of persecution, the holy martyrs, many heresies, of tyrants, of two plundering races, concerning the defense and a further devastation, of a second vengeance and a third devastation, concerning hunger, of the letter to Agitius [usually identified with the patrician Aëtius], of victory, of crimes, of enemies suddenly announced, a memorable plague, a council, an enemy more savage than the first, the subversion of cities, concerning those whose survived, and concerning the final victory of our country that has been granted to our time by the will of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_invasion_of_Great_Britain

 

[Type Username Here]

Didn't really matter. The Normans came through something vicious. Wiped a lot of the culture and language away. Enslaved, murdered and raped.

 

[Type Username Here]

The Normans by the way, we're descendants of Vikings and visigoths if I remember correctly.

 

[zerozero]

Didn't really matter. The Normans came through something vicious. Wiped a lot of the culture and language away. Enslaved, murdered and raped.

that's the political action of conquest but I'm talking about the extinction of a whole populations identity

only about 8000 normans settled and they intermixed liberally

what I'm thinking is that the earlier post-Roman, pre-Norman invasions were more brutal.. it's not necessary that Celtic culture was pushed away because of population (genetic) massacres, it might just have been a culture change, but either way the OG culture that Caesar saw with Druids etc was basically dead at the hands of first the Roman invasion then the German invasions by the time the Normans came

 

[zerozero]

I just want to know what the druids thought they knew

probably though if we had real records it would just read like some random new agey sounding nonsense lol

 

[The Real]

that's the political action of conquest but I'm talking about the extinction of a whole populations identity

only about 8000 normans settled and they intermixed liberally

what I'm thinking is that the earlier post-Roman, pre-Norman invasions were more brutal.. it's not necessary that Celtic culture was pushed away because of population (genetic) massacres, it might just have been a culture change, but either way the OG culture that Caesar saw with Druids etc was basically dead at the hands of first the Roman invasion then the German invasions by the time the Normans came

There's some evidence to support a racial hierarchy of sorts by which the Anglo-Saxons segregated the Celts, but regardless, I think you're right here. The Normans took control and made French the language of the courts, etc, but were themselves deposed and English returned after a few centuries. The Britons, on the other hand, were pretty much wiped out completely by the Anglo-Saxons.