Belgae: Kelts, Germans or something else?

[Colovion]

From what I gather, Belgae are Germanic tribes who lived in the stated areas and bred with Celts for so long they were essentially Celtic and Germanic. I'd class them in a similar category as the modern English what with being Germanic Jutes, Angles and Saxons which bred with the Celtish stock of the British Isles to create the English of today.

[PSYCHO V]

From what I gather, Belgae are Germanic tribes who lived in the stated areas and bred with Celts for so long they were essentially Celtic and Germanic. I'd class them in a similar category as the modern English what with being Germanic Jutes, Angles and Saxons which bred with the Celtish stock of the British Isles to create the English of today.

No, the Belgae ('furious ones'), are thought to have originated in central Germany around the rivers Tauber and Main and (as Ranika has already mentioned) were Celtic by Culture and Tongue. Scholars suspect an ancient connection to the Volcae of Bavaria and other areas in the south of Germany.

They were originally Proto-La Tene / La Tene 'A' peoples that embraced the warrior cults and seem to have sprung form the wanning power of the old Halsatt chiefoms. With the emergence of the Germani (a distantly related Indo-European group) over the indigenious Urnfield and Halstatt remnants to the north, they began to inter-marry with these Germanics as they increasingly came into contact with them during the early 2nd C BC.

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