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Thread #45881   Message #681556
Posted By: IanC
02-Apr-02 - 11:41 AM
Thread Name: Twa Corbies - transl. into Engl, please
Subject: RE: Twa Corbies - transl. into Engl, please
Pied Piper

Celtic tribes are so called because they used a type of axe called a Kelt or Celt. The languages you refer to are called Gaelic. Germanic is not a linguistic term.

Best if you read the scholarship, rather than the loosely defined stuff people have been making up for nearly a century.

:-)
Ian