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Some notes on Britain.

Britain is the name for the whole island, and the name Britain originates in the old Celtic word 'Pretanni' which means 'The painted ones'.  Britain is also called THE UNITED KINGDOM, meaning that the four countries - England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and also the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are united under one King or Queen as one kingdom.  After the Romans left Britain, when the Roman Empire collapsed, a German tribe called the Angles left their tribal homeland in the area of Angeln in Denmark and sailed across the North Sea to attack Britain.  The Angles - or the English as they became known - were successful in entering Britain.  They came together with other Germanic tribes called the Jutes and the Saxons.  

The Celts, whose land it was, retreated into the mountains and hills of west Britain and into the remoter parts of Cornwall and Cumberland (modern Cumbria). The mountainous west became known as Wales, and the people were called Welsh, from the Saxon word for foreigner - Walia.    I am a Celt, and all of my family on my father and mother's sides of the family are Celts without any intermarriage with the Saxons.