From: indravayu
Message: 49893
Date: 2007-09-14
> These are good questions and you, among others, areOnce again, a lot of this stuff comes from early medieval pseudo-
> the man for myth.
> Why Spain? Did the Gaels perceive the Q-Celt
> commonality with Hispano-Celtic? --even though
> Hispano-Celtic as a whole was farther removed from
> Goidelic than Brythonic was.
> They also looked to France for some of their
> ancestors: e.g. the Laigin or Laighne who accompanied
> one of the kings back from exile in France. They
> looked for their ultimate origins in Scythia. Why?
> Were they somehow cognizant of an early history 1,000
> or more years before or did they run all the way to
> Scythia based on the similarity with the name Scotia?
> You guys know more than me, so I'll let you answer