A 'Celtic' Britain: How does it work?

I have a relatively simple question; what are the likeliest PODs to stop Anglo-Saxon dominance over the British Isles? This would not have to remove Anglo-Saxons completely, just leave 'England' controlled by Brythonic peoples, with a Roman-Brythonic culture. Since we're dealing with the very stereotype of a dark age here, there may be a lot of guesswork involved, but i'm perfectly okay with speculation going on here.

Also disclaimer; This is NOT done out of a nationalistic wish to have a 'pure British isles' or any of that nonsense.
 
Also disclaimer; This is NOT done out of a nationalistic wish to have a 'pure British isles' or any of that nonsense.

Don't worry about putting this kind of thing up. In Dark Ages discussion here, we shuffle around the ethnic groups all the time without having racism accusations. The sort of question you asked is quite normal.
 
So a Saxonlaw in the sense of the Danelaw of OTL (later and probably in a different place than the Saxonlaw of this timeline)?

You'd probably need much better Briton leadership and stronger kingdoms able to fight off Saxon invaders...and for that matter, less of a Saxon migration - which will be harder to drive back to the sea than if its merely Saxon armies now and then.
 
I have a relatively simple question; what are the likeliest PODs to stop Anglo-Saxon dominance over the British Isles? This would not have to remove Anglo-Saxons completely, just leave 'England' controlled by Brythonic peoples, with a Roman-Brythonic culture. Since we're dealing with the very stereotype of a dark age here, there may be a lot of guesswork involved, but i'm perfectly okay with speculation going on here.

Also disclaimer; This is NOT done out of a nationalistic wish to have a 'pure British isles' or any of that nonsense.

Perhaps like this?

The solution in the timeline reference above was for the British leader responsible for the victory at Badon Hill (assumed to be Arthur in the timeline, but it may have been somebody else) to establish himself as High King, and force the British High Council (the periodic assembly of kings which apparently existed at that time) to accept some changes to the inheritance laws so as to institute the rule of primogeniture (rather than the usual Celtic practice of dividing lands between all the sons at the death of the father). Thus the tendency toward fragmentation would be halted and a new tendency toward consolidation begun.

With these changes, combined with some luck in having a competent High King more often than not, the larger, more unified Celtic kingdoms could hold the Saxons at bay, and gradually assimilate them.
 
You'd probably need much better Briton leadership and stronger kingdoms able to fight off Saxon invaders...and for that matter, less of a Saxon migration - which will be harder to drive back to the sea than if its merely Saxon armies now and then.
What kind of POD do you think is feasible to lessen the amount of Saxon migration? I like your timeline a lot, robert, i've gotten quite addicted to it in fact :p, but I don't want to retread your ground even though your POD is, imo, plausible. Also bear in mind that the timeline this is going to slot into already has POD butterflies from about 323BC onwards.
 
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What kind of POD do you think is feasible to lessen the amount of Saxon migration? I like your timeline a lot, robert, i've gotten quite addicted to it in fact :p, but I don't want to retreat your ground even though your POD is, imo, plausible. Also bear in mind that the timeline this is going to slot into already has POD butterflies from about 323BC onwards.

Something that makes them migrate elsewhere is best.

But what that would need, I'm not sure. Maybe have the "elsewhere" have more easily taken land, that would suffer a similar fate to what Britain did OTL?
 
Wait. Do you mean Celtic Britain as in pre-Roman, or 'Celtic' as in Romano-Britons? Because you mean the former, the Saxons are the least of your worries.
 
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