Re: Fw: Celts

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:

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> From: "Richard" <dayyanilim@...>
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> I don't know how exactly we can attribute all the various terms,

but

> my view is that, as far as Central Europe was concerned, Germani

was

> originally a purely geographical term for Celts living east of the
> Rhine and north of the Danube, including the infamous Cimbri and
> Teutones (who arose from the area of Central Germany, not from
> Jutland),

Because? And where is "Central Germany"?

>as well as the original Sicambri, Tencteri, Usipites, etc
> of the Rhine region. These latter Celtic tribes were incorporated
> into advancing

From where?


linguistically-Germanic nations sometime during the

> first to third centuries AD. I also believe the Bastarnae were
> Celtic, not linguistically Germanic.

Because?

>Apart from this, there was a
> tribe called Germani in Andalusia, as you mentioned, as well as an
> Iranian tribe of the same name as attested by Herodotus. These two
> instances of Germani are definitely tribal appellations.

And perhaps the latter shows where the name of the Germani came from:
they were (initially) led by Iranian speakers.


Torsten