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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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7 Reddit comments about Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland:

u/absolutpalm · 3 pointsr/AskHistorians

Saxons, Vikings, and Celts by Bryan Sykes is a fascinating book that explores this topic using extensive DNA testing of modern inhabitants of "The Isles" (term Sykes uses for the British Isles throughout the book). Some of of the DNA stuff gets a touch technical but he tries very hard to not overdo the hard science speak. All of your questions are addressed in some fashion. Available on Audible with a very enjoyable reader.

u/ManyLintRollers · 3 pointsr/23andme

It's really hard to separate them accurately. There is a lot of extremely intertwined genetics in the British Isles. A good book on the subject is "Saxons, Vikings and Celts" https://www.amazon.com/Saxons-Vikings-Celts-Genetic-Britain/dp/0393330753

u/veringer · 1 pointr/pics

The genetic bedrock of the British Isles is/was largely Celtic. There are debates about how broad that term should be, but whoever the original bronze and iron age people were (Celts or some other word), they contributed the most to present day English, Scottish, and Irish people.

There's a whole book about it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/0393330753/RWER603O4QEK1/ref=mw_dp_cr?cursor=1&sort=rd

u/mjaumjau · 1 pointr/ukpolitics

We can broadly define who is genetically British and who is not, see Oxford geneticist Bryan Sykes 10 year long DNA survey and resultant book.

Though it is summed up best here and you will notice that the admixture of what we have defined as Britons to be "stubbornly Celtic". Yes, this means also being white. Non-whites while being civically British and British citizens are not, by this definition 'Britons'. In the same way that I can not become what we know to be Japanese, even if the Japanese government says I am. Deep genetic cluster analysis does not work that way.

> I can't define Briton in any way, or respond to any of your points, but I'll declare myself right anyway!

Just because there are intermediary points between diverging sets, does not mean there are not clear distinct groups or sets that we can define. Your post here falls into a form of what is called the 'Continuum Fallacy'.

>Exactly, defining the nationality of your country in terms of a race literally is racism! See the Nazi party.

Nazis breathed air too, better not breathe air or yuo're a nazi!

u/TBSJJK · 1 pointr/history

Juvari includes the point about genetics in addition to culture. It had been assumed until the advent of DNA testing relatively recently that the British people were genetically Anglo-Saxon (ie that they descend totally from the AS invaders). In actuality most British people retain at least 70% Celtic DNA, some having up to 30% Germanic, Nordic, or French, depending on region. source

u/aethelberga · 1 pointr/history

Check out this book which is a very interesting look at the topic.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

>not particularly scholarly but it's the best I could do on short notice

Does this help?