Ireland, Wales, Cornwall and Scotland should be granted full independence and England should be divided up in several smaller countries all under a peacekeeping force.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    Not familiar with the teutons.

    Ancient Teutons (which were most likely not even of Germanic but of Celtic origin) killed a shitload of Romans, but then were defeated and afaik never tried to do something like that at least in an organised manner. The legend have it that it’s Romans who demanded Teutons give up their women after losing the war, but Teutonic women in response killed their children and then killed eachother to not surrender to Romans.

    Medieval Teutonic Knights (unrelated to the above people, just German crusaders) though were the prototype of the western european colonisation system and they did genocided and replaced a lot of people in Baltics which repercussions we still see today and it’s one of the major reasons why Baltic countries are the butthole of Europe and such a running dog of western imperialism.
    Hell, they even directly formed Prussia, one of the worst states in entire history of mankind that led to untold suffering.

    • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      1 month ago

      Something like that. Except it seems like a lot of indigenous british women willingly married anglo saxon men.

      The upper classes it seems were pure anglo saxons

      Followed by a middle class of mixed anglo and celtic heritage

      On the bottom rung were pure natives who couldn’t speak any English and were still culturally brythonic.

      Kind of like Spain in Latin America for example with its caste system.

      White Englishmen today are basically “mestizos” of celtic and germanic people lol.

      Which is super ironic

      • newacctidk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        On that train of thought, you should look into the Ostmen, the Norse who settled in Ireland. Many became Celtic rather than making Ireland successfully Nordic to the point that those who remained in their secluded cutouts like Dublin long after the Viking Age was over just stayed in separate parts of the city. Archeological evidence shows they built special quarters and didn’t integrate, which carried over to later place names in Dublin. The British actually let them stay when they eventually conquered Dublin.

        It is wikipedia I know, but it is a succinct statement

        The Ostmen were regarded as a separate group from the English and Irish and were accorded privileges and rights to which the Irish were not entitled. They lived in distinct localities; in Dublin they lived outside the city walls on the north bank of the River Liffey in Ostmentown, a name which survives to this day in corrupted form as Oxmantown. It was once thought that their settlement had been established by Norse–Gaels who had been forced out of Dublin by the English but this is now known not to be the case. Other groups of Ostmen lived in Limerick and Waterford. Many were merchants or lived a partly rural lifestyle, pursuing fishing, craft-working and cattle raising. Their roles in Ireland’s economy made them valuable subjects and the English Crown granted them special legal protections. These eventually fell out of use as the Ostmen assimilated into the English settler community throughout the 13th and 14th centuries

        The larger influence was arguably the spread of Irish genes to Scandinavia due to captured and willing brides of Norsemen who brought them home.

    • newacctidk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 month ago

      And importantly, they entered the region after being invited in by nobles to serve them. Turns out brining violent conquerors into your land on purpose will only cause them to enjoy looting and crushing your enemies for so long until they run out of plunder. Thank god Poland learned that lesson and never tried that shit again…