Where does Johnny Onion come into the scheme of things, well they are our distant cousins. During the Dark Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, the Angles and Saxons invaded Britain, forcing the British who previously inhabited the whole island, to retreat again to their western strongholds; a considerable number of them decided to do so by emigrating south across the sea, to join their cousins in the northwest part of Gaul; and so it was that Armorica, as the area had been know until then, became the land of the Britons, or as we now know it, Brittany. The Bretons are thus the cousins of the Britons, and to this day Brittany and the Celtic parts of the UK share much in common, including a common folklore - involving among others the legends of King Arthur - and similar languages. If you happen to speak Welsh, you may get on well with Britannys Breton speakers. Indeed, about 250,000 people in Brittany speak or understand Breton - generally as a second language, and Breton culture and language have undergone a massive revival in the last thirty years, even if they have not acquired the force and status that the Welsh language has regained in Wales. ..................................Photo Johnny Onion in Bute Town.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:11:44 +0000
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