The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

The Religion of the Ancient Celts eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 445 pages of information about The Religion of the Ancient Celts.

[9] Broca, Mem. d’Anthrop. i. 370 ff.  Hovelacque thinks, with Keane, that the Gauls learned Celtic from the dark round-heads.  But Galatian and British Celts, who had never been in contact with the latter, spoke Celtic.  See Holmes, Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul, 311-312.

[10] Caesar, i. 1; Collignon, Mem.  Soc. d’Anthrop. de Paris, 3{me} ser. i. 67.

[11] Caesar, i. 1.

[12] Caesar, ii. 30.

[13] Caesar, i. 1; Strabo, iv. 1. 1.

[14] Cf.  Holmes, 295; Beddoe, Scottish Review, xix. 416.

[15] D’Arbois, Les Celtes, 175.

[16] Caesar, ii. 4; Strabo, vii. 1. 2.  Germans are taller and fairer than Gauls; Tacitus, Agric. ii.  Cf.  Beddoe, JAI xx. 354-355.

[17] D’Arbois, PH ii. 374.  Welsh Gwydion and Teutonic Wuotan may have the same root, see p. 105.  Celtic Taranis has been compared to Donar, but there is no connection, and Taranis was not certainly a thunder-god.  Much of the folk-religion was alike, but this applies to folk-religion everywhere.

[18] D’Arbois, ii. 251.

[19] Beddoe, L’Anthropologie, v. 516.  Tall, fair, and highly brachycephalic types are still found in France, ibid. i. 213; Bortrand-Reinach, Les Celtes, 39.

[20] Beddoe, 516; L’Anthrop., v. 63; Taylor, 81; Greenwell, British Barrows, 680.

[21] Fort.  Rev. xvi. 328; Mem. of London Anthr.  Soc., 1865.

[22] Ripley, 309; Sergi, 243; Keane, 529; Taylor, 112.

[23] Taylor, 122, 295.

[24] The Walloons are both dark and fair.

[25] D’Arbois, PH ii. 132.

[26] Rh[^y]s, Proc.  Phil.  Soc. 1891; “Celtae and Galli,” Proc.  Brit.  Acad. ii.  D’Arbois points out that we do not know that these words are Celtic (RC xii, 478).

[27] See pp. 51, 376.

[28] Caesar, i. 1.

[29] CB{4} 160.

[30] Skene, i. ch. 8; see p. 135.

[31] ZCP iii. 308; Keltic Researches.

[32] Windisch, “Kelt.  Sprachen,” Ersch-Gruber’s Encylopaedie; Stokes, Linguistic Value of the Irish Annals.

[33] THSC 1895-1896, 55 f.

[34] CM xii. 434.

[35] In the Isle of Skye, where, looking at names of prominent places alone, Norse derivatives are to Gaelic as 3 to 2, they are as 1 to 5 when names of insignificant places, untouched by Norse influence, are included.

[36] Rh[^y]s, CB{4} 241.

[37] D’Arbois, Les Celtes, 22.

[38] Bede, Eccl.  Hist. i. 12.

[39] Adamnan, Vita S. Col.

[40] See p. 222.

[41] Dio Cass. lxxvi. 12; Caesar, v. 14.  See p. 223.

[42] Isidore, Etymol. ix. 2, 103; Rh[^y]s, CB 242-243; Caesar, v. 14; Nicholson, ZCP in. 332.

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