Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Britons (sometimes Brythons or British people) were the people who spoke the Insular Celtic language known as Common Brittonic. They lived in Great Britain during the Iron Age the Roman era and the post-Roman era. After the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons the population was either subsumed into Anglo-Saxon culture becoming English; retreated; or persisted in the Celtic fringe areas of Wales Cornwall and southern Scotland with some emigrating to Brittany.
