Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

[Alanus]

Back to you,

To your last question, some of it yes (I think).

I knew the Podolian cattle were genetically related to the Hungarian gray cattle... which are related to the Ukrainian gc. All the same roots there, I believe. My bowyer, Csaba Grozer, thinks they came in with the Magyars, but I believe they came from Alanic-Taifali root stock, long before the Magyars.

The thing that first got me going on the cultural similarities between the British Celts and the Sarmatians/Alans/Saka was finding an illustration of what I call "chariot man," a 2000 BC Sintashka-Petrovka horizon burial in the middle of the steppes. You can lay this picture down next to a British chariot burial and believe the guys were brothers! :lol:

As for haplogroups? Not much knowledge there. But I have noticed that the same haplogroup genes show up in the same areas where the Vandals-Alans settled, including Sardinia. They still make a good wine, a little lighter than standard Italian vintages and excellent with seafood. (a cultural no no)

I will continue to believe the Alans were a "tribe," in fact what we might call a "super-tribe" extending from the Massagetae, from the Saka, from the Yenisy culture Scythians, going back to the Androvono and Sintashka-Petovka cultures. In probability, many Alanic tribes or subtribes had different names, such as the Roxolani (which means "light alan," not "western alan," and is attested in the name of Rokhshon, the beautiful and talented wife of Alexander). That's my opinion, thanks very much.

I don't think we're stretching things a bit in making these comparisons. Not quite as radical as Littleton-Malcor and a bit Bachrachish. And I have my own (Scottishly accepted) idea of where my own name came from-- and it wasn't from some guy called "Mannus." :wink:

Oh! And my statement about Celtic being the "world's foremost language" was a joke coming from a "wry mouth"-- aka "campbell." Everyone knows the world's foremost language is Mandarin. (nuk nuk nuk).