Withdrawal

[Korpen]

Ahoj!
You can start training:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJadJs7oPm8
And I will nitpick - Gaelic is the Celtic language used by the Irish and Scots. The real Britons would be speaking Brythonic, i.e. Welch or Breton.

A bit of nitpicking of my own, the language in Wales is Cymraeg, brythonic is the family. The difference being similar to Slavic language and Polish.

BTW - the sound of Celtic languages makes me think of Nederlands/Vlaams or Swedish.

No it dont! But then it reminds me of polish or serbian when they talk...

To learn Manx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhpC2hceTq8

Yma O Hyd (about as patriotic you can get in welsh)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjFHqMxLGjg

[Borys]

Ahoj!
You can start training:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJadJs7oPm8
And I will nitpick - Gaelic is the Celtic language used by the Irish and Scots. The real Britons would be speaking Brythonic, i.e. Welch or Breton.

A bit of nitpicking of my own, the language in Wales is Cymraeg, brythonic is the family. The difference being similar to Slavic language and Polish.

Nitpickers of the World, Unite!
:-*

BTW - the sound of Celtic languages makes me think of Nederlands/Vlaams or Swedish.

No it dont! But then it reminds me of polish or serbian when they talk...

To each his own, I suppose :)
When I began to learn Portugues it sounded like a cross between German and Russian to me :D
Borys

[ctwaterman]

Well... while you are all picking nits or otherwise why dont you pick me a bail or two of cotton....

Charles

[Borys]

Ahoj!
Yma O Hyd - beautiful song. Thank you, Korpen.
I found a version to bleat* along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvVUWz5zz4&feature=related

Adults run, children cry when I sing - I think this is supposed to tell me something ... :D
Borys

[Kaiser Kirk]

And I will nitpick - Gaelic is the Celtic language used by the Irish and Scots. The real Britons would be speaking Brythonic, i.e. Welch or Breton.

The concept was that in the 400s-500s, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Britain, Brittany and Ireland would coalesce under their own "High King", with Arthur ruling Brittany, Cornwall and Britain.   Then in the 1000s in the wars vs. the Norse, the entire region would come under the Irish "High King".   

Probably the next step after Cnute the Great's defeat would be 1066 a Norman invasion of Brittany, triggering the call for aid from the Isles, and a Celtic army repulsing the Normans.

So by 1880 the Gaeltacht could be the common language. Which would have made it easier on Me since I have an Irish-English dictionary, but none for the others.  Now, I was going to place the unified capital in "Ys", which would help keep Brittany essential to the rest.

I actually did have a general idea worked out :)

[ctwaterman]

Ok but the 1066 Invasion was spured on by a promise from the Last Saxon King to give the thrown to William of Normandy.  Without that promise it might not have been possible for William to gather the Army and huge numbers of Mercenaries to carry out the Invasion.  Without the Prior Invasion by the Danish Claimant to the Thrown Williams conquest still might not have succeeded.

[Kaiser Kirk]

I wanted to have a couple more 'binding' moments.  Since- as you observe- William would have no claim on England, I thought a simple war of conquest on some premise would be a good redirection.  Thats all.   I really only had the timeline around the POD worked out in detail, I hadn't gotten to the rest yet. 

Part of the consideration of withdrawing was that I was already sinking time in and if the Netherlands and Bavaria were any guide I'd wind up sinking a ton more in.  I don't really have that time right now, and I really don't want to invest it in the Nav4 project if I'm not going to participate- and I'd hate to stick somebody else with a detailed in depth history which they really don't care for.