As a youth, SamHenry lived in Toronto, a place that in the 1960s was heaven and unlike all other North American cities. She worked for an elderly English woman at the Red Cross Society, Out Post Nursing Station department. One day she and her supervisor were talking about history and then World War I. She looked up at Sam and said: “My father worked on the Maginot line in France as a munitions expert. He said wistfully to me one day on leave that he was “sorry it was the Germans they were fighting because they were the most like the Brits of any continental Europeans.” What foresight because now we know why with a scientific basis:
Forget two world wars and one World Cup… geneticists reveal 50 per cent of Britons are GERMAN
- Shared gene stems from Germanic tribesmen who first came ashore on the Kent coast in 449AD
- Up to 200,000 believed to have crossed the North Sea to Britain, pillaging and raping after Romans left
By Allan Hall
Last updated at 2:18 PM on 21st June 2011
It may come as a shock to those fond of quoting a world cup triumph and the outcome of two wars as signs of British superiority.Scientists say that around half of Britons have German blood coursing through their veins.
Anybody who paid attention in their history lessons knows that tribes from northern Europe invaded Britain after the Romans left in around 410AD.
roblorinov
June 21, 2011
I guess this is matter of better late than never, no? LOL
Bob Mack
June 23, 2011
The scientists are just figuring this out? From whence did they think the term “Anglo-Saxon” came? And did they think the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes chose celibacy once they set foot on Brittania’s soil? Ah, well…so how goes it with you, SH?
samhenry
June 23, 2011
Hello, dear friend. I am OK. A bit stressed by work but OK. I am a bit weak but pressing on. I miss more hours on the blog scene. Thanks for stopping by.
DarcsFalcon
June 23, 2011
Well, didn’t the royal family change their German last name during the war (WWI) so they wouldn’t be perceived as having conflicting loyalties?
And wasn’t Saxony – the Saxon part of Anglo-Saxon – around Germany somewhere?
I suppose it makes beautiful sense, when you think about history and how people have moved around. I guess I’ve always sort of suspected that half the world is at least part Irish and/or part German. I think we like to practice the procreative arts. *ahem*
blackwatertown
June 23, 2011
Yup – old news as Bob Mack says.
Does this mean Rudolf Hess was really just flying home for the weekend?
samhenry
June 25, 2011
No doubt, Roo. No doubt. Stranger things and all that.