re: Britain's Gene Pool was 90% Replaced in the Bronze Age

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total nonsense.

Angles. English. Angles were from Germany

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Anglo-Saxons didn't arrive in England until after the fall of Rome (about 5th century AD). That is about two thousand years AFTER the period I am talking about here.

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Norse. there are lots of Norse words in the English language because the Norse came and conquered sea town and valleys of rivers.

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Yes, that's because English and Norse are both in the Germanic family of languages. Germanic came to England with the Anglo-Saxons who came from Denmark. Later in 1066 the Normans invaded England and brought French influence to the Anglo language. The Normans themselves were Norsemen living in France who had adopted the French language. In any case, this mixture of French and Germanic evolved into modern English. (Keep in mind that French itself is also Germanic).

Celtic (there's several Celtic languages) was the dominant language spoken in Britain before the Anglo invasions and remains to this day in isolated pockets in places like Ireland. Celtic is NOT Germanic but is more closely related to Italic (Latin) which linguists call Italo-Celtic.

However, Italic, Celtic and Germanic all came from the same parent language: PIE (proto Indo-European) which was spoken by the original Steppe invaders of Europe. PIE is believed to be at least 6,000 years old.

But all of this is moot. I am talking about stuff that happened in 2500ish BC. I am talking about the period where Britain became Celtic in the first place. This is long, long before Rome.