British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales

Pryce, Huw

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“…Before the conquest, texts in Latin used the words Britones and Britanni to refer to both the Welsh and the Bretons (and perhaps other Celtic peoples). Shortly after the conquest, this ambiguity was resolved, with these words coming to refer exclusively to the Bretons, and variants of the modern word 'Welsh' being applied to the inhabitants of Wales (Pryce 2001). 6 It is argued that this change was necessitated by the large Breton presence in England after the conquest.…”

Section: The Breton Contingent In the Norman Conquestmentioning

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Sociolinguistic substratum meets superstratum: How the Bretons of the Norman conquest amplified the Celtic features of English

Scott¹

2023

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This paper addresses the debate over the Celtic origins of English periphrastic-do and the Northern Subject Rule. These Celtic-looking features are only recorded in English after the Norman conquest and so many have argued that they appear too late to originate in Celtic. This paper provides a scenario to explain the delay, arguing for a role of the Breton contingent in the Norman conquest. It is suggested that these grammatical features existed as stigmatized vernacular forms in Old English and so were not committed to writing. After the Norman conquest, many Celtic Bretons were settled in the areas where these features are first recorded. As Breton contained versions of periphrastic-do and the Northern Subject Rule, it is proposed that the Bretons adopted these vernacular constructions in their English. With these features present in the

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Section: The Breton Contingent In the Norman Conquestmentioning

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Sociolinguistic substratum meets superstratum: How the Bretons of the Norman conquest amplified the Celtic features of English

Scott¹

2023

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“…A second point is worth noting but again not of significant weight. Pryce (2001) has documented the shift from 'British' (using Britannia to refer to Wales) to 'Cambrian' (using Cambria) nomenclature in the Latin of Wales and identified the early twelfth century as the point when the latter begins to take over. While it would make sense for a Latin text, parts of which may date to the eleventh century, to use Britannia and for this to be translated as Cymry, it is less clear that the converse makes sense.…”

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Priuilegium Sancti Teliaui and Breint Teilo

Russell¹

2016

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Library of Wales 17110E, fol. 63), copied by the main scribe of the manuscript, contains the earliest surviving copies of the Latin Priuilegium Sancti Teliaui (fol. 63ra1-b3) and the Old Welsh Breint Teilo (fol. 63va8-b26). 1 Between them in the manuscript is a papal privilege, Statutum est … pacis inueniant (fol. 63rb4-63va7) which seems to act as an appendix to the Priuilegium (see Plates 1 and 2); the gap left after Breint Teilo was subsequently filled in the fifteenth century by a bull of excommunication. What follows is the text of fol. 63 as printed in Evans and Rhŷs (my translation is in Appendix 1 (pp. **-*)): 2

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British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales

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Sociolinguistic substratum meets superstratum: How the Bretons of the Norman conquest amplified the Celtic features of English

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