Rambling Reflexions

The major part of Albion, colonised by the Brythonic or British Celts beame known as Britain; Caledonia, Land of the Picts; Strathclyde and the Gododdin, Lands of the British Welsh, were colonised by the Irish Gaelic Scots, thereby becoming Scotland; Armorica, Land of the Gauls was colonised by the British Cornish and Welsh, thereby becoming Little Briton or Brittany; The largest part of Britain was conquered and settled by the German tribes of the Angles and the Saxons, becoming in the British and Gaelic languages, Saxonland, and in their own language Angleland or England, which in turn was temporarily ruled by the Danes before being conquered and ruled over by the Normans and subsequently ruled by the Plantagenets and the House of Blois; conquered by the Tudor Welsh; ruled by the Scottish Stuarts, the Dutch House of Orange and back full circle to German rule of the Hanoverians and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Never having been ruled by English people and having a language of such stunted growth that it is forced to borrow enough words to justify a dictionary. They have however managed to hold on to that name of England given to them by the last major wave of invaders after the Gaels and British Celts.