The upper valley of the Danube, along the middle Rhine was the first playing field of this Teutonic franchise. Yes sir, Teutonic it seems and, my "Y-Chromosome Phylogenetic Tree" would place these folks as Haplogroup R. Here we go again, the same beginning haplogroup as the Saxon but, events will move on down the hallways of time and, mutations would produce some distinctive changes. Anyhow, they also were an Indo-European speaking team of folks who played their way southward and westward to lands west of the Rhine.
A second factor to be considered is their earliest name. Cimbrians, Cimbri, Cimbrias, Cymric appear on some early name calling days. These names appear in use before the Romans huddled their teams along the Danube. Wow, names, names, and more names were used. Much will yet to be discussed about the "Cymry".
P.S. One of my earliest guidebooks to Wales, "Blue Guide Wales", states on page 28, "The name Wales derives from the Anglo-Saxon 'wealas' meaning 'foreigners'." Hum ... more to come. This book is by John Tomes, 7th edition, A & C Black (Publishers), London, 1990.
Rights by "Kindred and Descent" would be high on my playbook for these ancestors. Of course, you must recognize my personal Y-DNA has some connection to this huddle group ... "Go, Big Red Dragon, Go" ... no basis here. A true proprietor of "Land-and-Earth" begins the foundational concept of this team. All was passed down verbally until around 800 A.D. when these concepts were written. Please see post of April 4, 2022, for this well written "Law Book"! Again, no basis here among these branches.
ReplyDeleteOral transmission was the playbook instituted from the earliest days for this huddle group in action. Today, the constitution of this team would use the word "agnate" meaning a relative whose kinship is traceable exclusively through males. This would be related through male descent or on the father's side of the branches. Interestingly, it is from the French word "agnasci" = to be born in addition to. For the Welsh it is "ap" or "ab" meaning "son of". Just love those French!
ReplyDeleteNow it was not an overnight invention, this locker room for the Celts, who became the Welsh. Many generations went into the architectural blueprints, beginning with building your first fence. What you see around you is your land and earth. The sons took over from here, building what became the normal state of things. This was sharing the earliest claimed locker room space with one another. Then Uncles, cousins, other bother's families stared holding all these small groups of farmlands together into small types of locker rooms they might even proudly envision a town. Finally, when four or more of these "townlands" clustered together, any free kindred could occupy any group of townships, causing the need for better management between each locker room. Here, finally came the concept of team managers who answered to the owner. This stage of the locker room came to be called "The Maenol". It joined together four of the townlands. A bunch of kindred all huddled together under the administration of a "maer" and "canghellor". Of course, the "maer" was responsible for collecting the rent!
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