Celtic History

Normally they were naked, but whan they used clothes they used dark colours

they ate vegetables,berries and grains to make bread

Celts have not died out. Descendants of the Celts can be found living in Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Brittany.

Was it the huns? Of course not, the Huns never went to England. Around 9000 BC, there were sharp half-Neanderthal crossbreeds, silent but knowledgeable; clicking and popping Capoids from Morocco; raspy Paleoindians from Scandinavia, who spoke with no vowels; and canny Old Europeans from the Caucasus, who were a mixture of everything. Then a bossy light-brown people from Ethiopia who reproduced at an alarming rate arrived and began to chase them all around. And this is all before the Indo- Europeans, our ancestors, arrived. We were still mucking around in Ethiopia, laughing like hell that the first wave had left.

Celtic is not associated with any single country. There are people of Celtic origin in many countries, particularly in western Europe, but also further afield.

The pre-Christian version was a circle with an equal-armed cross internal to the circle, called the "sun cross", representing the sun. When the Celts became Christian, the cross was Christianized. The life-giving sun was compared with Christ.

Irish: aingeal

Scots Gaelic: aingeal

Welsh: angel

The Celtic Fringe is an area of Europe where Celtic customs or Celtic language exists. It is called a fringe because these areas tend to be a fringe of other areas clinging to the western most parts of Great Britain (Wales, north western Scotland), the Isle of Man and the western parts of Ireland and north western France.

In Irish it's: deirfiúr athar / deirfiúr máthar / ain't / aintín

In Britain the rich Romans came and took over the Celt's.

In Irish Gaelic, farm is "feirm" and in Scottish Gaelic, it is "feàrrm".

The title of king in Celtic tribes varied by region and time period, as the Celts were not a unified group but a collection of tribes with their own leaders. Prominent figures include Vercingetorix, the chieftain of the Arverni tribe, who famously resisted Roman conquest, and other leaders like Boudica, who led the Iceni against Roman rule. Each tribe often had its own king or chieftain, reflecting local customs and governance. Thus, there isn't a single "king of the Celtic tribe," but rather many leaders across different tribes.

In Irish it's "mearú súl"

In Welsh it's "rhithlun"

In Scots Gaelic it's "mearachadh sùla"

There were four classes in Celtic society, each contributing something to the others in return for a service from that class. The classes were as follows; Chiefs, Nobles, Druids and Bards (considered one class), and the peasants. The Chief gave land to the peasants, money to the nobles, and rights of their position to theLearned(Druids,Bards). The Nobles gave protection to the peasants and Learned, and military service to the Chief. The Learned gave religious rites to all, and the bards sang praises to the Chief and Nobles, and gave knowledge,(limited, of course, this was the source of their power in the society) to all. The peasants merely worked the land, providing labor and food to the society. Women could become any of these.

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The Celts were governed in tribes. Britain was divided into several kingdoms each with ruling kings or Queens. There were smaller villages or hamlets where there were chieftains (usually the elder members of the community). They were ruled fairly and with strict morals. The myth they were barbaric is quite untrue.

On foot, or by horse or by chariot!

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The year was 390 BC. Gauls (the Celts of modern France), who had recently settled in Northern Italy, began to look for more land because of a population influx. Thus, the Gauls began expanding south, into Etruria. The Etruscans, overwhelmed by the massive numbers and sheer strength of the Gauls, turned to the Romans for help. The Romans sent envoys to a prominent Gallic chief to try and negotiate peace. Fighting broke out, and one of the Roman senators killed the Chief. The Gallic King, a man known only as Brennus, was infuriated, and demanded the life of the senator and all of his family members. The Romans refused, because several of the senator's family were senators or government officials themselves. Thus, the Gauls marched on Rome, entered the city, sacked it, controlled the city for seven months, and dominated it for forty years.

Irish (Gaelic): Eilís [eleesh] (Scots) Gaelic: Ealasaid Manx/Welsh/Breton/Cornish: ?

Celts lived in ringforts, hillforts and crannógs...