The Britons (y Cymry)

The Britons (Cymry) are the descendants of the original Brits. The citizens of the Kingdom of Britain. British history states that the island was named after Brutus of Troy, a Trojan prince cast into exile and the first King of Britain. Brut-us is actually a Latin adaptation, with the original being Brut or Brud. This is why the British historical records are called Bruts. Tan is the Celtic word for land. Thus, Britain/Britannia/Britannae become Brutus-land.
(See: Historia Brittonum by Nennius, and Brut y Bryttaniait ‘Chronicle of the Early Britons’ as annotated and translation by Wm R Cooper MA, PhD, ThD)

The Britons have always held that they are the true heirs to Britain, and that they would be restored to their rightful and proper station on the isle of Britain. This is seen in the Daroganau, which composes approximately 20% of all ancient British literarture.

‘It could be, then, that the abandonment of ‘Britannia’ as a word to denote ‘Wales’ was related to a belief that ‘Britannia’ should henceforth be used for the WHOLE island which was the rightful inheritance of the Welsh, as the heirs of the Britons.’
Huw Pryce, “British or Welsh? National Identity in Twelfth-Century Wales”, The English Historical Review , Sep., 2001, Vol. 116, No. 468 (Sep., 2001), pp. 775-801 Oxford University PressWe are the legitimate direct descendants of the first Britons, and the only people in the world with a legal right to contract as British, or Britons. Which has long been more than a nusance to some.

‘Walenses enim a prima Britonum prosapia continua sanguinis successione deducti, tocius Britannie dominium sibi de iure deberi iactitant.’
‘The stock of a continuous succession of blood, from the first of the Britons, the Welsh had brought on their way, and the whole of Britain, which is due to put it of the ownership of the right to contract.”
Letters of Arnulf of Lisieux, ed. Frank Barlow (Camden, 3rd Ser., LXI, I939), no. 42, pp. 77-8; Gerald Camhrensis: The Invectionibus, 51, Pp. 84-5. Hubert’s letter is calendared in Episcopal Acts ed. Davies, i. 308 (D. 308).

Gilbert Stone writes in, ‘Wales: Her Origins, Struggles and Later History, Institutions and Manners’;
‘The title ‘Briton’ is to-day borne by many peoples in many lands, few of whom, probably realise that, strictly speaking, it is the Welshman alone who is entitled to that name’.
Wales; Her Origins, Struggles and Later History, Institutions and Manners (1915), Gilbert Stone, London) Gilbert Stone was an
English barrister before becoming a Judge. He was also a Liberal Party politician.

In the version of the “Chronicles of England” printed by Gerard Leew of Antwerp (1493), a Dutch printer, which was later edited by Friedrich W. D. Brie, PH.D.; the text makes mention of how “Britain was changed to England“ on page XV and in chapters 91-100. Yet today we know that this conquest of Britain was merely English propaganda, as the “Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain” and the “Dark Ages” were debunked in the 20th Century as pseudo history.

Recently DNA forensic evidence from Oxford University has proven the Welsh and the Cornish to be the Britons. According to an article posted in the Digital Journal, ‘Of these, the people who are most genetically different from all other people and groups in Britain are the Welsh. Indeed, the study shows that their DNA ancestry can be traced back to the first Stone Age peoples to arrive in Britain’. This statement and the evidence it is coupled with well establishes what the Welsh and Cornish have known to be true via oral tradition for centuries. The undeniable fact that the Britons are the Welsh and Cornish.