How Europe Escaped Speaking Arabic

BTW, Cornwall IS NOT ENGLISH, it is Cornish. At the moment it's conquered territory under the brutal heal of the Anglo-Saxon invaders, but in the past it was part of NON-English Celto-Romantic Brittain!

But, I digress, we can go back to 700 BC or thereabouts when the Lords of Galicia departed the Dead Coast and invaded the British Isles taking with them their Basque and Celt-Iberian slaves.

They founded the lines of kings in all of Britain down to the days of Boadica. After the departure of the Romans the Britons raised back up their own kingdoms ~ Alba, Brittain, Cornwall, Wales, Scotia ~

They returned to Spain just on the heels of the Moslem advance into the Iberian peninsula.

So, no, there's no "English" fairy tale. On the other hand, there is Galician history, and their own sources clearly denote the Cornish invasion which began the Reconquista.

Later history written in the rough tongue of Roman slaves is the part that's questionable.

OUTSTANDING article by Michael Novak! Thanks for posting. Thanks for the ping, Salvation.

BTW, Cornwall IS NOT ENGLISH, it is Cornish.

Well, it is a county of England today but, if you mean it has retained it's Celtic roots, you are correct.

At the moment it's conquered territory under the brutal heal of the Anglo-Saxon invaders, but in the past it was part of NON-English Celto-Romantic Brittain!

Which was a similar status as Galicia, whose Roman name, Gallaecia, literally means "Land of the Celts", which the Celtic tribe or tribes of the region being given the collective name of the "Gallaeci" or "Callaeci" in Latin and "Calaicos" in modern Galician.

But, I digress, we can go back to 700 BC or thereabouts when the Lords of Galicia departed the Dead Coast and invaded the British Isles taking with them their Basque and Celt-Iberian slaves.

Care must be taken as these stories of the Milesian Invasion come from the Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) which was an 11th Century compilation of Irish mythology. Mythology is wonderful and often has an underlying core of historical fact but it cannot be taken without a grain of salt.

Modern genetic studies have shown that today's Irish and Scots are genetically related to the Galician Celts.

Scots' Celtic roots are linked to northwest Spain

That, however, does not imply an indirect route to Ireland and Scotland by way of Galicia. The migration of that particular Celtic wave would have started in Central Europe and spread, like the ripples of a rock thrown in a pond, in an arc that eventually reached both Iberia and the British Isles and even into what is now Turkey (the "Galatians" of the New Testament). Further invasion by other people would then have isolated these Celtic "cousins" into the geographic corners they had been backed into.

They founded the lines of kings in all of Britain down to the days of Boadica. After the departure of the Romans the Britons raised back up their own kingdoms ~ Alba, Brittain, Cornwall, Wales, Scotia ~

Although certainly distant cousins with the Celts in Galicia, the route to the British Isle was much more direct.

The resulting geographic distribution ended up looking like this:

They returned to Spain just on the heels of the Moslem advance into the Iberian peninsula. So, no, there's no "English" fairy tale. On the other hand, there is Galician history, and their own sources clearly denote the Cornish invasion which began the Reconquista. Later history written in the rough tongue of Roman slaves is the part that's questionable.

Well, this is where British Isles Celtic folklore and the Galician history diverge.

By the time the Moors came in 712 AD, Galicia had been part of Roman civilization since the time of Augustus and had later had it's own barbarian invasions. The Cornish were faced with the Germanic Anglo-Saxon tribes and the Galicians were faced with the Germanic Suevi and the Visigothic tribes.

In the 700's, when Cornwall had it's hands full dealing with Wessex, the locals in Asturias and Galicia not only had the local population in them but also had Christian refugees from the south and the military remnants of the defeated Visigothic Kingdom. Prior to this time, Galicia and Asturias had been relatively resistant to Christian influence. After the Islamic Moors came, Christianity became the rallying point against the Islamic Moors.

As far as "Galician history" is concerned, I can assure you that no mention is made of any "Cornish invasion".

My family roots are in Galicia and Asturias. I can read Galician (Gallego). I belong to Galician genealogy and history internet forums whose members are almost exclusively Galicians currently living in Galicia. I correspond regularly with many Galicians, including Galician history professors, about topics relating to Galician history and genealogy . I have an extensive library on Galician history topics in English as well as Castillian as well as Gallego. The "Cornish invasion" may be part of Cornish folklore but it is simply not a part of Galician history.

The history of the founding of the Kingdom of Leon and the Kingdom of Castile are not a matter of folklore. These events occurred during eras of written history and their history as as well documented as the history of Norman invasion of England. They were not founded by "Cornish knights" in the Eighth Century AD.

Castile

>>Yes the Muslims are obsessed with re-conquering all territory lost such as Spain and Israel but Jihad means Jihad doesn’t end until the whole world is Muslim. This is the Muslim version of peace<<

How long until they demand their territory “back” with the promise of peace and how soon until the leaders of Europe agree to the Faustian bargain which will spell their own destruction?

Some in Europe would probably think that if their gave them back their former borders they would be “at peace”. The forget the only peace that these savages can ever be in, is eternal peace 6ft below ground.

The modern language in Galicia is a brand of Spanish with lots of Portuguese variants in it. The original Celtic language (otherwise a cognate of Cornish) became extinct in the 16th or 17th Century. Cornish itself is essentially extinct, although both versions (Cornish and Galician) are understood and studied by specialists in Celtic languages.

Now, regarding whether or not we can "trust" so-called Irish mythologies, the earliest claims that they were simply "mythologies" were adbanced by Anglo-Saxon interests at a period of time when the Irish were poverty stricken and weak.

The Galician versions of the same materials clearly indicate a very ancient source, and this is backed up by DNA studies that demonstrate that the modern Irish are identical to the modern Basques.

At the same time the Celtic speakers who brought their version of Celtic languages to Ireland originated in the Volga. They are known from references made to them by ancient Greeks regarding a revolution by the German speaking tribes over whom they used to rule (a typical warrior class fed and supported by a tributary tribe situation).

The English continue to make claims that neither DNA nor written records support, and I'm prone to discount any English claims regarding Celtic speaking peoples when the DNA suggests otherwise, and it does.

BTW, I have found that "history" in Spain and its related regions frequently depends on whether or not you support Franco or the Republicans.

Give it a few years....

Bump while I continue the search for the 12th Imam.

It might also have something to do with the 4 Khazar-Arab wars fought between 649/50 and 758CE.