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    Default Re: What would offend a Celt?

    Sorry C-Punk, I think you may have jumped a few rungs on your logic ladder? Better check your facts, as there were people the Romans called Gauls, whom they considered Celts that didn’t live in Gaul. Then there were others they simply called Celts that also didn’t live in Gaul. For example the Cimbri in Denmark. Yet, the Romans never called the Britons Celt; nor did they the Irish, or even the Scotts. There were even people that lived in Gaul they did not call Celt. You however may be confusing the Latin Celti or Celtae and Greek Κέλται or Κελτός for the English word taken from the work of Edward Lhuyd in the early 1700’s. A very common mistake but the later is a horse of a different colour.

    Strange how if the Roman or Greek historical record doesn’t agree with a preconception, suddenly the ancient, which ironically is the source of most knowledge, becomes so stunningly ignorant.

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