Welsh ancestry

**Geoff Withnell** · 7th March 13, 06:33 AM

Quote from Wikipedia (I know, I know, but in this case fairly accurate) "These areas of Europe are sometimes referred to as the "Celt belt" or "Celtic fringe" because of their location generally on the western edges of the continent, and of the states they inhabit (e.g. Brittany is in the northwest of France, Cornwall is in the south west of Great Britain, Wales in western Great Britain and the Gaelic-speaking parts of Ireland and Scotland are in the west of those countries).[50][51] Additionally, this region is known as the "Celtic Crescent" because of the near crescent shaped position of the nations in Europe.[52]"

Originally Posted by PanhandleThrower

I traded emails with a website that sold tartan material, and was told that the Bledsoe name was of Cornish history, and supplied me with the Cornish National tartan. Perhaps I had a laps in mental function and tried to connect Cornwall and Welsh lands. If that be the case then we may consider this the end of this thread. But now I'm curious about this "fringe" area. Is it a term to describe an area that covers certain bands of people? Or something different?

**Celtic Ichor** · 7th March 13, 08:26 AM

Steven, who has registered here as Tam Piperson, Jock Tamson, The Scotsman, Twa Corbies, and about 12 other pseudonyms has had his membership here repeatedly revoked.

**Mike_Oettle** · 15th March 13, 01:38 PM

As John Carrick says, Cornwall was known as West Wales. In the same era, the area we now know as Wales was called North Wales.
There are close linguistic ties between Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. Wales and Cornwall were the last regions where the British language (previously spoken over the whole of Britain to at least the vicinity of Edinburgh) was spoken after the Anglo-Saxon conquest. Brittany comes into the picture because many Britons fled the isles and settled in Brittany (the remaining region where Gaulish was spoken on the mainland). They appear to have influenced the language spoken there considerably, so that it is probably closer to Welsh and Cornish than the Armorican dialect spoken there in earlier times.
Regards,
Mike