by Mick Harper » 9:29 pm
What Borry means, in his endearingly muddled way, is that the English had had the resistance kicked out of them by all and sundry for hundreds if not thousands of years but in 37 AD the Celtic (and Belgae) overlords of the English were replaced by the Romans (then the Anglo-Saxons, then the Danes, then the Normans).
But in the Celtic homelands in the west the Celts were not the overlords they were the ordinary people. But martial people, unlike the English, and hence the Romans couldn't manage to occupy Celt-land in Ireland and northern Scotland, the Anglo-Saxons ditto in Cornwall, Wales, northern Scotland and Ireland, the Vikings/Danes ditto in Cornwall, Wales and northern Scotland and the Normans ditto in West Wales and northern Scotland. Alles klaar?