English before William and the Romans

History reveals the trajectory of English as an Indo-European offshoot of the Northern Germanic language that meandered its way through Latin influences via Rome into Old English. It was only after William the Conquerer’s victory over the region was established in those three hundred years that became the post-Norman conquest, that blackness became associated with evil.

I want to focus on Old English and its predecessor languages because it is here that the word “black, “bhleg,” or “blaikjan” retained its intended form and meaning. Which leads to the question, who were the “snake” tribes that Patrick chased out of Ireland in order to become a saint within the papal legions?

I propose that these snakes were and are the ancient Black mothers, the Sybils of Mami Wata, who brought culture, justice and wisdom into the areas in which they presided and reigned. I believe that the Sybilline influences in Northern Germany, Ireland and Wales before the battle of Hastings, William & Harolds’, and even the Roman domination, created the language that honored Blackness; the light within the darkness and therefore, the revelation.