Re: [tied] Re: [tied, con-celtic] Celts

Hi Piotr,

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:14:52 +0200 Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> writes:

> 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.

Isn't there a strong possibilty of Pictish (though not much to work with
of course) sould have been a seperate Celtic language cognate with
Brittonic but not simply a Brittonic dialect, maybe closer t Gaulish than
any other of the Celtic languages?

-Michael

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