RE: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)

The Celts were different and migrated across Europe before Rome expanded
and the Germans arrived.  Perhaps some confusion is a result of the
Byzantines (and Arabs )calling any non-greek Kelts or Franks, something
akin to the Greeks and Romans calling anyone else Barbarians.  It didn't
matter if they were English,French,Italian or German, if they didn't
speak Greek they were Kelts or Franks.

David Best 
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>From:	Oerjan Ohlson[SMTP:oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com]
>Sent:	Tuesday, April 07, 1998 8:48 AM
>To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
>Subject:	Re: Ship Naming Convention (was: RE: What, no messages?)
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>Allan wrote:
>
>> >How could you get the Picts without the Kelts or Celts (depending on

>> >your bent)?  
>> 
>> You'd THINK I'd mention the Celts. However, my understanding is that
>"Celt"
>> covers a wide range of people that also includes the early Germans
and
>Gauls
>> (but not the Franks, if I remember correctly and I may be wrong). You
>make a
>> point, though.
>
>Hm... while the early Germans certainly had lots of cultural traits in
>common with the Celts (or, at least, several burials and lots of
artefacts
>with Celtic appearences have been found in Denmark and IIRC Scania),
Celtic
>and German languages are very different indeed. If the "early Germans"
were
>indeed Celts, they weren't German at all. 
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