Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: LostTribe
Interesting take. Do you know more about the Normans, resources, etc, that are as detailed as the Celtic examples? I've traced my last name to the Normans so I'm very interested.
273 posted on 08/29/2002 7:21:35 PM PDT by Citizen of the Savage Nation
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 135 | View Replies ]


To: Citizen of the Savage Nation
> Do you know more about the Normans, resources, etc, that are as detailed as the Celtic examples?

I'm sorry but I don't. The place to go to be saturated in the Norman Conquest, 1066 and all that is Britain (or France). However, I'm told they have now stopped teaching about 1066 in the British schools. Awwwkkk! Something about "dead white males"...

We know the Normans were VERY Celtic, from their Celtic Norse and Dansk roots, to the Celtic French women some of them married. They invaded the Celtic English who had just defeated other Celtic Norse near York. Two battles in so short a time was too much for the English.

One reason we "know" so little about the Celts in general is most everything we know in America is written in English, mostly in England! Most of us don't have access to the huge body of Celtic material written in French, German, and other European languages which take quite a different view of the exclusivity the English claim on THEIR Celts.

274 posted on 08/29/2002 8:19:31 PM PDT by LostTribe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 273 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson