[Sca-cooks] Celtic origin...?

[Olwen the Odd]

Hmm.  It seems there is a skeptic.  Care to defend?
Olwen

>From: clevin at ripco.com (Craig Levin)

>Olwen:
>
> > OK here is the Celtic connection.
>
><snip>
>
> > >From: Druighad at aol.com
> > >Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> > >To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> > >Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Celtic origin...?
> > >Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:11:34 EDT
> > >
> > >In a message dated 10/25/01 2:13:27 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > >olwentheodd at hotmail.com writes:
> > >
> > ><< This is a topic of discussion on the Merry Rose.  I too was
>interested
> > >as I
> > >  cann't figure out the connection between the french and the celts
>busides
> > >  kissing cousins.
> > >  Olwen
> > >   >>
> > >
> > >Very much OT Olwen, but the Celtoi were one of the first peoples to
>settle
> > >in
> > >Gaul(France). The Brittany people still speak a dialect of gaelic, and
>the
> > >Celtoi influenced that cooking a great deal, or so it's been surmised.
> > >
> > >the Gauls that Ceasar fought were the ancestors of the modern French.
>
>Er, um. The Bretons do *not* speak a dialect of Gaelic. Gaelic is
>spoken in parts of Ireland and Scotland. The Bretons, the Welsh,
>and, in period, the Cornish, spoke different dialects of
>Brythonic, hence the names Brittany, Britain, etc.. before the
>coming of Rome, you also had Gallic, Celtiberian, and a few other
>Brythonic languages, but, by and large, they went <bamf> as Latin
>more or less became the European language of choice.
>
>Pedro


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