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Post by deuce on Jul 29, 2016 18:13:34 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 11, 2016 9:26:32 GMT -5
The Celtic kings of Dumnonia may have had a fortress at Tintagel: blog.english-heritage.org.uk/discoveries-excavations-tintagel-castle/Its abandonment in the 7th century is interesting. In fact, we see the same thing at numerous sites located on the Mediterranean or that traded with the Mediterranean markets. Mediterranean trade survived the Vandals, but then something happened....
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Post by deuce on Aug 11, 2016 22:58:26 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 15, 2016 20:24:22 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Sept 2, 2016 20:22:48 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 11, 2016 15:08:52 GMT -5
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Post by trescuinge on Sept 23, 2016 13:51:35 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 24, 2016 0:24:29 GMT -5
Just about every branch of Celtic Studies owes that man a debt. Prost!
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Post by deuce on Oct 6, 2016 10:26:43 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 20, 2016 18:55:20 GMT -5
Good show on Scottish myths and legends:
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Post by deuce on Oct 28, 2016 12:37:23 GMT -5
The Cornish are definitely one of the "Six Nations" of Celtic peoples most overlooked. Their Brythonic Celtic language died out a few centuries ago, but they are viewed as distinct from the Anglo-Saxon English by themselves and the English alike. The protagonist of REH's The Lost Race was on his way to Cornwall. Solomon Kane was born just north of Cornwall in Devon (itself once a Cornish region). King Arthur was born in Cornwall at Tintagel. Long John Silver, judging from his speech patterns, was also born or raised in Cornwall. Not surprising, since the Cornish have been famous sailors, smugglers and pirates since the Middle Ages. Daniel Harms is a well-known authority on the Cthulhu Mythos. He also harbors a deep fascination with Cornish folklore. Here's a good post by him: danharms.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/some-excursions-into-cornish-folklore/
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Post by deuce on Oct 31, 2016 9:39:38 GMT -5
The Cornish are definitely one of the "Six Nations" of Celtic peoples most overlooked. Their Brythonic Celtic language died out a few centuries ago, but they are viewed as distinct from the Anglo-Saxon English by themselves and the English alike. The protagonist of REH's The Lost Race was on his way to Cornwall. Solomon Kane was born just north of Cornwall in Devon (itself once a Cornish region). King Arthur was born in Cornwall at Tintagel. Long John Silver, judging from his speech patterns, was also born or raised in Cornwall. Not surprising, since the Cornish have been famous sailors, smugglers and pirates since the Middle Ages. Daniel Harms is a well-known authority on the Cthulhu Mythos. He also harbors a deep fascination with Cornish folklore. Here's a good post by him: danharms.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/some-excursions-into-cornish-folklore/A poem by Robert E. Howard concerning the Cornish/Celtic heritage of Devonshire: Heritage
My people came from Munster and the cold north Nevis side.
Their hearts were black with ancient wrongs and hate and bitter pride.
Their souls were wild and restless with swift and changing moods;
They knew red border forays and dark unholy feuds.
And first within my cradle on the day that I was born
I heard the songs the rebels sang to give the gallows scorn.
But when the springtime standards march in a great green waving host,
I never dream of Inverness or the rugged Kerry coast.
I never dream of a barren shore where the sea wind keens and shrills;
My dreams are all of Devon downs and the good green southern hills.
I never see the surging Lorne or the sullen Kenmare's flow,
But I have walked through Dartmoor nights with all the winds that blow.
I know the quaint ale houses beneath the oaks whose shade
Was flung when lost Lundinium fell before the Roman raid.
I know the croon of sleepy streams, and the brown time-carven towns,
But best of all the fall of night across the dreaming downs.
I have not walked there waking, but dream roads I have trod,
And Devon is my heritage by tree and hill and sod.
Beyond the years of yearning, and lust and blood and flame,
My people rode in Devon before the Saxon came.
Oh, wattle hut and barley, oh feast and song and tale!
Oh, land of dreamy legend and the good brown British ale.
My heritage is barren, my feet are doomed to roam;
I may not drink from Devon springs or break the Devon loam.
But when the kings are fallen and when the empires pass
And when the gleaming cities are wasted stone and grass;
When the younger peoples totter and break their gods in vain,
They who were first of all the earth may get them home again.
Gods, hurl the haughty deathwards and shake the iron thrones
That my kin shall ride in Devon above the Saxon's bones.
~REH~
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Post by deuce on Nov 3, 2016 15:42:19 GMT -5
Scholars are starting to swing toward the idea that the "Celtiberians" were simply "Celts in Iberia". No particular admixture with the ethnic Iberians in Spain's northeast at all. It looks as if they were simply Celts that had been in the Iberian peninsula for a long time, as opposed to later Celtic migrants like the Astures. "Iberia" was named such by the Greeks, who encountered the Iberians first when they started trading in the region. Painting by McBride.
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Post by deuce on Nov 14, 2016 20:41:43 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 2, 2016 20:27:42 GMT -5
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