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Originally Posted by Cherry_Lover
For the country, perhaps. For her people, definitely not, given that a large proportion of them were slaughtered or driven into a small area of the country, and then oppressed for most of the next millenium and a half....
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Maybe if you mean the pure Britons. But those (the Welsh) were a minority. Genetic testing indicates most British have Briton ancestry, so more likely (as is often the case in early medieval Europe) her people were absorbed and intermingled rather than killed. Besides, the suppression was mostly done by Normans, not her enemies the Anglo-Saxons. Too bad Ethelfrith the Anglo-Saxon king isn't a hero, cuz he'd actually be a representative of those enemies Saber keeps referring to.