I think the "gothic" cathedrals of Europe represent some of the most beautiful architecture ever designed by man. Even though they're not really Gothic, apparently.
Somehow I'd never made the connection between the Goths and "gothic" before.
Also didn't realize that the Goths were Celtic. I read last year a book on the Celtic empire...it surprised me, I'd had no idea it had once been such an important and extensive culture.
>Also didn't realize that the Goths were Celtic.
It is interesting how few people make the connection between the many European "Tribes" and the
Celts. It's the way history is taught I suppose. Historians seem long on analysing the trees but are often blind when it comes to finding the obvious forest which surrounds them.
>I read last year a book on the Celtic empire...it surprised me, I'd had no idea it had once been such an important and extensive culture.
Taking from my Freeper Home Page at:
HISTORY:
These Millions of Celts grew to become Tens, then Hundreds of Millions as they migrated in waves westward and northwest to Galatia, Ephesus, Corinth, Thessalonika, Phillipi, Collosse, to what is today Hallstatt, Austria and Neuchatel, Switzerland (where exist major Celtic digs and museums) and beyond, to totally dominate Northern and Western Europe. These Celts (also as Cimmerians, Scythians, Danaoi, Massagetae, Milesians, Masilia, Sarmatians, Germani, Goths, Franks, Gauls, Lombards, Belgae, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vandals, Danes, Normans, and other assorted "Barbarians") are the rootstock of today’s Europeans and Americans who became the backbone of global Christianity.
The Celts were clearly not just scuffy little bands of timid Europeans hiding in the woods and looking to stay out of trouble with the "primary" inhabitants. The Celts WERE the primary inhabitants of Europe, to this day.
-LT