Re: Celtic/Germanic

--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:

> No.
>
> It was Romance that replaced Celtic in Gaul and Iberia. Only in
> Britain did Germanic take over.
>
> For the success of Germanic in what is now Germany, I think Gaius
> Julius Caesar bears some responsibilty; he rearranged the

linguistic

> furniture, so to say, in Gaul. His body counts, exaggerated or not,
> were awesome.

The people that caused a mess in Germany were the Cimbri and
Teutones. As for the Romans: Varro, legiones redde?

>
> The Celts were active east of the Rhine as well, but the docilation

of

> the western Celts left a power vacuum. Since Rome kept itself west

of

> the Rhine, the Germans expanded into the Danube valley.

That's not all Germany.

>
> At a certain point, the east-west Celtic Continuum followed the
> Seine-Danube axis. This was broken by Roman power, in Spain, and in
> Gaul.
>
>

Torsten