Re: Town, Zaun, and Celtic Dun-

From: tgpedersen
Message: 64934
Date: 2009-08-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "richardwordingham" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > I was pointing out that whatever term you use, you can't use it
> > both of the relict languages on the British Isles and in Brittany
> > and of the Hallstatt culture, which was Oppenheimer's point.
>
> Surely you can, if you accept that not all Celts shared the
> Hallstatt culture. Of course, one may doubt that the Hallstatt
> culture was restricted to Celts - which I suspect is your point.

No, my point was that in order to overcome the obstacle I had met in answering Andrew's question of finding a common ground for the NWB, Illyrian and Etruscan occurrences of the same names, namely that the latest such common layer would be Urnfield/Lusatian, which is approx. 700 years too early, I had to find a way of separating out the Hallstatt culture from the image of 'Celticity' from Ireland to Austria. I can't say that those names are in the LaTènian language, since supposedly there is no such language, but the distribution matches.

BTW, note that according to Tacitus, the Cotini spoke Gallic, and the neighboring Osi Pannonian


Torsten