Who Were the Strathclyde Welsh?

One of the four main groups left after the Romans, (others are Picts, Angles, Scots) were the Britons or the Britons of Strathclyde. They would dominate the west of lower Scotland, Cumbria and some of Northern England. Their lands stretched through Strathclyde south through Cumbria to Wales.

Is Strathclyde A Welsh?

Strathclyde (lit. ... The language of Strathclyde (and of the Britons who lived in the areas surrounding it under non-native rulership), is known as Cumbric, a language that is closely related to Old Welsh, and, among modern languages, is most closely related to Welsh, Cornish, and Breton.

Was there a Strathclyde clan?

Strathclyde or Ystrad Clud (beautiful Estuary) was a kingdom of the Britons, or brythonic celts in the Hen Ogledd, in what is now Northern England and southern Scotland, through the post-Roman and medieval eras. The original occupants of the area were a Celtic tribe known as the Damnonii.