SC - Modern English - OT
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon Jan 5 16:09:45 PST 1998
>These languages were germanic, and the british
>language of the celts they pushed into wales and the north (welsh is an
>anglo-saxon word meaning foreigner!) were displaced. Those celtic british
>languages, along with Irish, go under the catch-all name Gaelic.
>
>Charles Ragnar
Wales is Cymru, and the language is Cymeric (if I remember the spellings
correctly), not Gaelic. The Irish are Gaels as are the Scots, who take
their name from the Scotia (sic?), a pack of Irish sea rovers who
invaded Hibernia about the time Julius Caesar landed in Britain.
Bear
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