Re: [tied, con-celtic] Celts

29-06-03 09:38, Michael J Smith wrote:

> I was talking a guy from the SCA, and he was telling me a theory I had
> never heard before.
> He said that things we associate with ancient Celtic culture, such as
> lime washed hair, checked/striped/Plaid clothing, woad painting
> originated amongst the Picts, and that the Celts borrowed all these
> things from them. ...

As the Picts seem to have been a Brittonic-speaking people, it would be
a case of borrowing _among_ the Celts. Did your friend seriously suggest
that the culture of the Scottish Picts exerted such strong influence
also on the Gauls and other continental Celts? Doesn't he believe, by
any chance, that Scotland was the Celtic Urheimat? ;-)

Piotr