[MR] Celtic origin...?

[Olwen the Odd]

Ahh...another view.

Lady Olwen the Odd
>From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Celtic origin...?
>Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:36:32 -0700
>
>
>
>Druighad at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 10/25/01 2:13:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:
> >
> > << This is a topic of discussion on the Merry Rose.  I too was 
>interested as I
> >  cann't figure out the connection between the french and the celts 
>busides
> >  kissing cousins.
> >  Olwen
> >   >>
> >
> > Very much OT Olwen, but the Celtoi were one of the first peoples to 
>settle in
> > Gaul(France). The Brittany people still speak a dialect of gaelic, and 
>the
> > Celtoi influenced that cooking a great deal, or so it's been surmised.
> >
> > the Gauls that Ceasar fought were the ancestors of the modern French.
>
>Yes- you are quite right- however, I would suspect that the MR
>discussion is not truly on Celts, but on Scots-Irish peoples form later
>period. Most people misuse the term Celt. I'm sure you are aware of
>that.
>
>That said, the Scots and the French had a long relationship frequently
>known as the 'Auld Alliance', which dates into the 9th c, IIRC. By the
>11th c they were swapping daughters for marriage arrangments. And often
>times harried the English by coordinating attacks (such as during the
>Great Rebellion of 1173-74, in which William the Lion of Scotland and
>Louis of France teamed with Henry II's sons in an attempt to oust him).
>And many other things, of course. Mary Queen of Scots was once Queen of
>France, you know. Briefly. Then she went home and married Darnley. Bad
>idea.
>
>Don't really know why they had this tie. Maybe the French had a thing
>about sheep too, and couldn't admit it at home. ;-)
>
>'Lainie


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