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To: mountainlion

Well, the Celts are the wild card in that deck. They’re not quite sure where the proto-Celts came from but it might be as far east as India or Tibet. There are Tibetans who have freckles and red hair, I’ve seen photos. Also a musicologist I read about once claimed similarities between Indian and Celtic musical forms.

CC


3 posted on 11/08/2014 4:15:37 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Well, the Celts are the wild card in that deck.

DNA science is new and needs lots more research and we will have answers to many questions.


4 posted on 11/08/2014 4:18:52 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

The Scots shed some light on that in the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.

“...Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since.”

“...as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”


6 posted on 11/08/2014 4:43:41 PM PST by concentric circles
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