12-21-2007, 05:59 PM
There is also Menapi mentionned by Ptolemy in Ireland.
From what I have been told by our 'gaelic specialist' on Arthurian: TW (I agree that is not face value but there is at least interesting guess!), there were british, gallic and belgian 'celts' settled among the Gaels in Ireland, they were called crodda, a variant of the word cruithne the name given to the Picts by the Irishmen. Those crodda kept for a while their latenian culture (for exemple dressing in pants and shirts when Gaels wore the lèine) and their originality. They were particulary prominants in several parts of Ireland, such as Laigin/Leinster which had lot of contacts with Britain and may have been at some points a kingdom extended on both shores of the irish sea, such as Dal Riada in the North, or Dumnonia in Devon/Cornwall and northern Brittany.
From what I have been told by our 'gaelic specialist' on Arthurian: TW (I agree that is not face value but there is at least interesting guess!), there were british, gallic and belgian 'celts' settled among the Gaels in Ireland, they were called crodda, a variant of the word cruithne the name given to the Picts by the Irishmen. Those crodda kept for a while their latenian culture (for exemple dressing in pants and shirts when Gaels wore the lèine) and their originality. They were particulary prominants in several parts of Ireland, such as Laigin/Leinster which had lot of contacts with Britain and may have been at some points a kingdom extended on both shores of the irish sea, such as Dal Riada in the North, or Dumnonia in Devon/Cornwall and northern Brittany.
"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
