12-19-2007, 01:11 PM
I think the best definition is the linguistic one: a Celt is someone speaking a celtic language since his early childhood. With this definition - teached here in Brittany's universities about 'celtic studies' - a Celt can be a Gaul of the first century BC, a Gael from the Vth century AD or today an old breton peasant... Tell him he is a celt, he won't care at all and will probably laugh at you!
Now British isles probably received few Celts in the Iron Age, it was more the adoption of the celtic culture over centuries.
Now British isles probably received few Celts in the Iron Age, it was more the adoption of the celtic culture over centuries.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
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Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
