No they were called "woads". (It was in King Arthur - The Untold True Story That Inspired The Legend so it must be true)
Celts had proper clothing 
They didn't go naked or just wrap themselves in a sheet like the savages to south.
Posted on 04/22/2006 7:56:23 PM PDT by Pharmboy
ROBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - Wine conjures up the image of cultured drinkers sipping their way delicately through a full-bodied vintage.
But for two history buffs with a passion for the tipple, northern Italy has the barbarians to thank for its long wine-making tradition.
Luca Sormani, from Como, and Fulvio Pescarolo, from the tiny town of Robbio near Milan, have traced the region's wine culture all the way back to its Celtic roots and have started making it according to ancient methods.
Celtic tribes from farther north -- known to the Romans as "Barbari" -- conquered northern parts of Italy about 2,500 years ago, settled there and started draining marshes, cultivating land and growing vines.
"There is a bit of the barbarian in us," said Pescarolo, 51, who is the ninth generation of farmers from the rice-growing western part of Lombardy. "We feel we are part of this nature."
Interest in all things Celtic -- from music to mystical rites -- took off in northern Italy in the mid 1990s, fanned by the Northern League party which rose to prominence with demands for independence for the north.
Sormani and Pescarolo said their interest in Celtic culture had nothing to with politics and that, instead of the symbols and rites, they studied what was close to their hearts -- a blend of agriculture and wine-growing.
NO HELMETS WITH HORNS
"It's not that we want to put on helmets with horns. It's not about mythology or cults," said Sormani, 40, who has a doctorate in agriculture.
"We feel we are part of a tradition which dates back to the times of Celts."
Standing in a vineyard on a man-made hill in the middle of table-flat rice fields in western Lombardy, Sormani recalled how he spent years studying the history of the
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True, however if the Lord hadn't invented whiskey the Irish would rule the earth.
And before any PC voices chime in my Grandfather only spoke Gaelic, and he was a strapping man who finally died at 92.
I remember visitng him in Lincolnshire when I was very young. "love ya boy" is all I ever caught.
Great map and link--thanks. I have always been a "Celtic fan" but my interest increased when I did a Y-chromosome analysis and it could not be more solidly Celtic! The type is R1b/M343...
Ya beat me to it ;o) Good post. Great book.
That was a great thread...thanks for resurrecting it. I learned a lot from that post.
Seems unlikely, since if the Trojan War took place it was about a thousand years before the Celts showed up in the area of Greece/Asia Minor.
No they were called "woads". (It was in King Arthur - The Untold True Story That Inspired The Legend so it must be true)
Celts had proper clothing
They didn't go naked or just wrap themselves in a sheet like the savages to south.
>>>"Couldn't those darn Italians invent anything?
>>>>>>"LOL! Well, they were good at art - architectural, painting, sculpture, and music."
Sophia Loren was reputed by US Italian restaurants to say, "What you see, I owe to spaghetti." Thank you China.
They took over a region together with the crops and agricultural techniques of the preceding population, and intermingled with it, that's all.
Google turned up a plethora of naked, blue Celts, so there must be something to the rumor.
http://www.amusingfacts.com/facts/Detail/celtic-warriors.html
That's the colour the shirts/shiorts they are wearing, not paint 
(Celtic Warriors Team)
Do tanks with backup-lights count?
I would! It was Lucy! I have pictures!
I'll et when I'm 'ungry;
I'll drink when I'm dry;
If'n the whusky don' kill me,
I'll live 'till I die!
The PC crowd can kiss my bonnie Irish lass, who had the good sense to marry a German/Welsh/Cornish/Huguenot man!
"Yeah, and Marco Polo brought spaghetti from China."
And tomatos for sauce came from Mexico. Wonder what the pasta sauce had, before tomatos? Oil, for one.
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