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Celtic peoples

As Hugh Quigley wrote with considerable race pride, The modern Irish are the most genuine, unmixed, and unchanged Celtic people that exist on the globe. Even the most prejudiced writers against the Irish. .. acknowledge that Ireland, today, is the land where the world-renowned... [Pg.58]

The Welsh Triads are among the earliest of all British records that relate to the origins of the Celtic peoples. Although imperfect due to a... [Pg.162]

The Celtic people knew Ariadne s castle of Light at the Corona Borealis as Caer Sidi ° The Welsh called the maze Caer-droia or Troy-town. [Pg.241]

Many of the elflike beings remind scholars of entities found in old Celtic tales, which are filled with fairies, elves, and the wee folk. As recently as a hundred years ago, many people among the Celtic communities of Britain and France believed in the literal existence of these creatures. [Pg.94]

The Greeks and the Cretans appear to have been amongst the first European peoples to use iron the Grecian iron age began about 1400 b.c., although for most of the Celtic and Teutonic peoples it did not commence until some 900 years later. [Pg.267]


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