[RightWhale]

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The Celts were all over Europe and were a serious competitor to the Roman Empire. Ultimately the Empire dissolved and the Celts remained, so in a sense the Celts won.

[LostTribe]

>..so in a sense the Celts won

With a current global population of about a BILLION people with Celtic roots that seems like a fair assumption. {ggg}.

[truth_seeker]

The Celts were all over Europe and were a serious competitor to the Roman Empire. Ultimately the Empire dissolved and the Celts remained, so in a sense the Celts won.

Respectfully, this part-celt disagrees. I think the celts failed to leave very much impact, due partly to lack of a written language at the time, and lack of a centralized government.

Also, they didn't survive as the cultural basis for any single nation. For example, modern Ireland is little more celtic, than it is anglo-saxon or norman or viking. Of course, I do grant that the language(s) remains with a not insignificant number of people, mainly in Ireland, Wales and Brittany.

An uncle of mine, born in the mid-1800s in Minnesota, of Canadian-Irish-protestant (eg. Scots) origins, was named Adomnan. This is the name of St. Columba's scribe, another priest at Iona. Scottish and Irish protestants can be good celts, too.

[Cronos]

The Celts were all over Europe and were a serious competitor to the Roman Empire. Ultimately the Empire dissolved and the Celts remained, so in a sense the Celts won.

Ha Ha HA! Unless you classify the Germans as Celts (which may be true as the Romans did so, calling them Germanii or authentic Celts. Anyway, the Roman slaughtered the Celts and the ones remaining were subsumed by Latin colonists. Even the Germans who came and conquered parts of the Roman empire became Roman in manner and language (the Franks in France or the Goths in Spain). In the end we derive our culture from Rome, the GErmans gave up their barbaric primitive culture to accept the culture and civilisation of Rome. Rome, the Empire, civilisation won.