Angol nyelvi ismeretek II. [antikvár]

The mixture which is BritishThe English are Anglo-Saxon in origin, but the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish are not. They are Celts, descendants of the ancient people who had crossed over from Europe to the British Isles centuries before the Roman invasion. It was these people whom the G-ermanic Angles and Saxons conquered in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. The Anglo-Saxons, however, could not penetrate to the remote parts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland so various dialects of Celtic have here survived. Welsh is spoken in Wales, Gaelic in Scotland and Erse in Irealnd.These Germanic tribes gave Eng3and its name - 'Angle' land. They were conquered in turn by the Norman French, when William of Normandy landed near Hastings in 1056. It v;as from the union of the Norman conquerors and the defeated Anglo-Saxons that the English people and the English language were born. The Danes, or Vikings, who invaded Britain in the eight century stamped their influence on the people and the language.The WelshWales lies" on the edge of the United Kingdom. This semiisola-tion helped to make the Welsh feel cut off and neglected. It also had serious effects on their industrial prosperity, ft>r the main roads which led to their chief markets in England and Scotland were quite unsuited to heavy commercial traffic. Now motorways and a great suspension bridge across the River Severn link South Wales with all the most important cities in Britain. There are more than l/2 million people in Wales and over 500.000 - mostly in the North - speak Welsh, although only about 32.000 speak no English at all.The English conquest of Wales in the 13th century united the different Welsh tribes continually fighting one another, but- 3