Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

From: george knysh
Message: 60973
Date: 2008-10-17

--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:


----- Original Message -----
From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@... com>

> The town of Hallstatt
> is close to Noricum, but now people are questioning the Celticity of
> Hallstatt, since it's influence didn't extend to Ireland, which is
> clearly Celtic, nor
> http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Hallstatt_ culture
> (according to the list, but not the map) to Britain and Spain. What
> the result will be, I don't know.
> Torsten
>
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This may just mean that Hallstatt is not common Celtic,
because it's just too late to be so,
It may be just account for some part of Celtic people.

Arnaud

****GK: Indeed. This was pointed out long ago by the great Celticist Henri Hubert.Cf. his "The rise of the Celts" : esp. the chapter entitled "The separation of the Goidels and the Brythons" , available on line at Questia(for a fee) : http://www.questia.com/read/99953243?title=The%20Rise%20of%20the%20Celts
****



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