On Furphies: what we really don't know about the 'Celts'

[la_marquise]

I have my professional hat on, today, over on the SF Novelists blog. I'm talking about the concept of 'Celts', the origin of myths about their history and the law around women. You can find the article here. You can comment here or there.

SKirt of the day: flippy blurred floral.

Comments

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

I understand that the Celts originally drifted out of what is now Germany umpteen thousand years ago?

[Citation Q.I.] Blue eyes have been traced back down the line to an unknown individual who was born on the shores of the Bospherus about 10, 000 years ago. Hence blue eyed people are technicaly Turkish and mutants [GGG].

I grew up in the Church of Wales where such characters as Saints Illtud [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illtud ] and Teilo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Teilo ]to name but two whose names I knew well.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Church in Wales, surely? Disestablishment took place when my mother was a little girl.

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

/\ True. They've just [re]voted themselves female bishops!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

For a value of 'Celt'. The 'traditional' Celtic migration theory starts with Spain. But genetic connection and cultural identity are not the same -- cultures and languages mutate, drift, intermix and change over time and genetic links are far enough back that in terms of recorded culture, they aren't hugely helpful. Interesting, though.
I was delighted with the Church of Wales' decision to elect female bishops. They didn't have them in the early middle ages, not at all.
I have a soft spot for some of the Welsh saints. Interesting set of Lives.