08-15-2009, 03:29 AM
Ah, ha! :lol:
So, we are once again back to square one: the Goddodin poems must have celebrated some vague event in typical Celtic (and likewise Roman) wordplay, and then they were corrupted with additional booga-booga in the medieval period.
Sounds like the other threads on Roman and post-Roman Britain.
hock:
Makes you want to scream, because it's mostly too late to piece it back together. The Humpty-Dumpty syndrome. :roll:
So, we are once again back to square one: the Goddodin poems must have celebrated some vague event in typical Celtic (and likewise Roman) wordplay, and then they were corrupted with additional booga-booga in the medieval period.
Sounds like the other threads on Roman and post-Roman Britain.
hock: Makes you want to scream, because it's mostly too late to piece it back together. The Humpty-Dumpty syndrome. :roll:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
