Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-09-07
ANsLo-sAxoN AGAIN.
Another Tracing OF Blood Relationship
to Ancient Dates.

EDITOR BULLETIN: 1t Is very
true that there is some reasonable
objection to terming the Ameri-
cans as a whole an Anglo-Saxon
race, for although many of them
are of Anglo-Saxon and kindred,
(such as Scandinavian, German
and Dutch) descent, large pro-
portion of them are from other
sources. Some are of French
and Spanish descent, both Of
which contain an element of the
original Gothic from which the
Anglo Saxons sprang, but which
in these nationalities, especially
the Spanish, is mixed with other
races. A great many of them
1.-THE Americans) are of Scotch
and Irish descent both of which,
are of course Celtic or Kettle;
while still others are from the
Sclavonic tribes.
Still there is a larger amount of
kinship among the Americans,
English, Germans, ETC., than &c.
A." in the BULLETIN of Sept !
seems inclined to admit. When
he claims that the Mortimer who
invaded and subdued England,
and whose descendants still live
and thrive in both Old and New
England, were Celts or Kelts,
he makes a very great mis-
take. The Mortimer or Morse
men, otherwise Scandina-
vians, like the Germans, Saxons,
Angles, Jntes, ETC., were an off
shoot from the Gothic race, this
portion of them having at an
early date made their way into
Scandinavia, and acquired the
name of Mortimer or Norsemen
from the northern region they in
habited.
The people of Britain whom
they overcame were originally
Celtic or Kettle, but after the in
vasion by the Romans under Ju-
Illus Caesar and the Roman occu-
patton of the country for 80 many
years, it would be strange if some.
thing of a mixture had not al
ready taken place in the popula-
ton, before the Mortimer appear.
ed upon the scene. If it be true
that the Phenicians made early
expeditions to Britain, but some
authors doubt it they may, at
very remote period, have been the
very first to mix with the original
Celtic inhabitants. So the Celts
of Britain must have been crossed
once-perhaps twice-before they
mingled at all with the Germanic
tribes, and the proportion of Celtic
in the people with whom the
Mortimer came in contact was
thus lessened, somewhat, at the
outset.
But the Mortimer or Scsndina-
vians and the Saxons, Jutes and
Angles, all of whom were practi-
cally one people-all Ger
manic tribes - branches, as
has already been stated
from the original Gothic root-so
overspread and overshadowed what
precede them that the nation be-
came to a." intents and purposes
Anglo-Savon or English Saxon for
the word England is derived from
Angle laud, or the land of the
Angles (and the Saxons).
The statement that William the
Conqueror and his followers were
French, Gall Celts)" is also mis-.
take. William the Conqueror
Duke of Normandy was des--
cended from Hralf, or,-as he is
better known-Rollo, one of the
fercest of the piratical Mortimer
or Norsemen Chiefs, who made
excursions on the coast of France,
gained strong foothold there and
established large permanent Co
lony. They inter-married with
the French, adopted their Ian.
guage and manners, and, from the
fact of their being Mortimer, that
part of the French territory they
occupied was call Normandy, or
land of the Norman, which is but
variation of the term Mortimer.
1t is a mistake, however, to sup
pose that the French with whom
the Normans amalgamated, were
entirely Celtic. Although the
original population of ancient
Gaul (Which was about the same
as modern France) was Celtic as
the name implies for Gaul,