--- On Fri, 10/17/08, indravayu <
sonno3@...> wrote:
> So, what's your spin on the language of Ptuj et al.?
> Noricum was next to Celtic speaking areas, in the midst, if you wish.
> There are Celtic topos in Austria.
There is a large amount of Celtic onomastic material from Noricum. In
Patrick Sims-Williams recent analyses of Celtic personal names found in
Latin inscriptions from the Roman period, there was a very high density
of Celtic names in Noricum - I think perhaps (going from memory here)
higher than in Roman Gaul.
- Chris Gwinn
****GK: Unfortunately such considerations will not sway someone who reasons along the lines of "if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck,then it clearly must be a partridge..."****
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