>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
"The Celts WERE the primary inhabitants of Europe, to this day."
That makes it sound like all of us, except for the Latins, are some sort of Celtic descendants. My blood for instance, is Dutch, German, Irish, + Scot, Welsh, a little English. I'm married to a Jewish lady of Russian and Hungarian descent. I suppose that's all Celtic blood of one type or another.
It makes it sound like any northern European type is Celtic.
But do you really think that such a small group as the Lost Tribes could have generated what became the rather large population of basically all the peoples of Northern Europe?