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Cnapan (alternative spellings criapan, knapan or knappan) is a Welsh form of Celtic medieval football. [1] [2] The game originated in, and seems to have remained largely confined to, the western counties of Wales, especially Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
[4] Following the end of Roman rule in Britain during the 5th century, Anglo-Saxon settlement of eastern and southern Britain began. The culture and language of the Britons fragmented, and much of their territory gradually became Anglo-Saxon, while the north became subject to a similar settlement by Gaelic-speaking tribes from Ireland. The ...
Higham suggests that the war between Britons and Saxons seems to have ended in some sort of compromise, which conceded a very considerable sphere of influence within Britain to the incomers. Kenneth Dark, on the other hand, has argued for a continuation of British political, cultural and military power well into the latter part of the sixth ...
A famous First World War-era recruitment poster, stressing the concept of British national identity. The First World War "reinforced the sense of Britishness" and patriotism in the early 20th century. [112] [118] Through war service (including conscription in Great Britain), "the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish fought as British". [112]
John McLeod of London, England, is a leading card game authority who maintains Pagat.com, a treasure trove of information on all card games. He says euchre originated from the Alsatian game Jucker.
Hearts was a favorite game on Mississippi riverboats after the Civil War. In the early 1900s, Bridge became the rage, and interest in Hearts, Euchre, and Whist (the forerunner of Bridge) started ...
Endemic warfare appears to have been a regular feature of Celtic societies. While epic literature depicts this as more of a sport focused on raids and hunting rather than an organized territorial conquest, the historical record is more of different groups using warfare to exert political control and harass rivals, for economic advantage, and in some instances to conquer territory.
The Anglo-Saxons, who are one of the ancestors and forefathers of modern English people, were a Germanic people who came from northern Germany during the Migration Period and gave name to the modern German state of Lower Saxony and the Anglian peninsula, which is the region from where they came from, making the English people a Germanic people and the English language a Germanic language.