The Scythian Germanic / Celtic ancestry

Hi Folks

The idea that the Scots descended from the Scythians or Sarmatians is
a medieval idea wen there was an attempt to trace all known people
back to the sons of Noah. Ashkenaz became a "catch all" for Celtic
and Germanic people, who were of course, unknown to the Writers of
the Biblical Book of Nations at the period between 720 and 627 BCE
(When this table was probably composed).

Basically, a Biblical chronology was strapped in front of the ancient
Gaelic and Anglo-Saxon ones.

Regards

John

--- In nostratic@yahoogroups.com, "matt6219" <matt62@...> wrote:
> --- In nostratic@..., erobert52@... wrote:
> > In a message dated 25/10/02 00:55:54 GMT Daylight Time,
> ardfilidh@...
> > writes:
> >
> >
> > > i went looking at the scythian/alan/sarmat sourses. they seem
to
> be
> > > turkic.
> > >
> > > the leabhear gabala syas they are one of tewo branches who were
> the
> > > ancient ancestors of gaels--oh well--perhaps this was from the
> > > reincarnated druid?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The idea that the Scots are descended from the Scythians is just
> another
> > folk etymology with no more basis than the fact that the words
> look alike,
> > the same as Iberia & Iveria, Abkhazia and Abyssinia etc.
> >
> > Ed.
>
> Is this so certain ? Has it been shown that the Scots definitely
> originated elsewhere ?