It is very interesting. The Brits make a big thing about the "darker and smaller" people seen around Cornwall, Wales and Brittainy as being Celts.
I checked this out when I was there studying Celtic History at Oxford. Someone had studied the subject and detemined these people were simply the result of some intermixing with survivors the very many Mediterranean based shipwrecks off Penzance, the Isles of Scilly, and the British and French western seacoasts in general.
(BTW, only some British based Celtic scholars insist these people are the only Celts in Britain. The far larger Celtic communities in continental Europe do not see eye to eye with the Brits on many things Celtic. Not even the Irish agree with the Brits, for the Irish do not look like these residents of Cornwall and Wales, some from Isle of Man, etc. When I was at Trinity College Dublin studing the Celts, if you ask the man on the street the meaning of "Celtic" you often hear "Catholic". As in the Holy Celtic Church of Ireland. {ggg}. )
It is very interesting. The Brits make a big thing about the "darker and smaller" people seen around Cornwall, Wales and Brittainy as being Celts.
I checked this out when I was there studying Celtic History at Oxford. Someone had studied the subject and detemined these people were simply the result of some intermixing with survivors the very many Mediterranean based shipwrecks off Penzance, the Isles of Scilly, and the British and French western seacoasts in general.
Their is no need to resort to fanciful shipwrecks; in fact "mediterranean" whites have been living in Western Europe since the ice ages. These "smaller and darker" people are actually pre-Celtic, not Celtic; they simply happened to have hung on to the language of their earlier Celtic conquerors. Their original pre-Celtic languages are now completely lost to history.