[MR] Celtic origin...? (fwd)

[Craig Levin]

Olwen:

> OK here is the Celtic connection.

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> >From: Druighad at aol.com
> >Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> >To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> >Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Celtic origin...?
> >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:11:34 EDT
> >
> >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.

Er, um. The Bretons do *not* speak a dialect of Gaelic. Gaelic is
spoken in parts of Ireland and Scotland. The Bretons, the Welsh,
and, in period, the Cornish, spoke different dialects of
Brythonic, hence the names Brittany, Britain, etc.. before the
coming of Rome, you also had Gallic, Celtiberian, and a few other
Brythonic languages, but, by and large, they went <bamf> as Latin
more or less became the European language of choice.

Pedro
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