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How or why did the English become a bow culture?
Loki:
Yeah your right i got that mixed up,the Picts were the Alliance of Northern Tribes who were destroyed bye the Scotti invasion,oops! ???
--- Quote ---he ancient britains were described as (celtic type) people by the romans.
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Oh well,they must have been then ;D,The Romans described everyone north of the Alps as Celtii :D or Barbars as they called them,thats where we get the word Barbarian from.Its a derogatory name supposed to describe there language's,BarBarbarBarBar ;D.
The 100 year old theory that the Celtii migrated from Switzerland (La tene) has been discredited,the only reason the victorian Archeologist's wrote it is because they found the Battersea shield in the Thames a few years after the artifacts at La tene were found.They put that with the tribal names which have there counterparts on the Gaulish mainland,Parisi (both Parisi tribes bury there dead in chariots) and Belgae and came up with a migration theory ???,forgetting that the tribal names we know are the names the Romans gave them!we dont know what they called themselves! because Romans saw similarity's between the tribes doesnt mean much,a Roman think's everyone who's not Roman is a dirty smelly milk drinking BarBar ;D.
DNA testing now proves that the so called 'Celts' of Britain have lived here since the ice retreated after the last Ice age,if the Celtii did migrate here then there DNA is exactly the same as the DNA of the people who built Stonehenge 5,000 years ago,no need for them to migrate in 300Bc when they were allready here ???.
SimonUK:
Take a look at this from the Oseberg Ship, built around 820:
http://www.angelo.edu/faculty/rprestia/1301/images/IN247%20Drag%20BST.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Osebergskipet-Detail.jpg
If you didn't know where it was from, you'd think it was Irish, but it's norse.
The Sutton Hoo finds also contain this kind of knot work (roughly 200 years before the Book of Kells)
Loki:
The Saxon buried in his Longboat at sutton Hoo was very much a Pagan,his Saxon Heritage is just as much nordic as the Danish Viking's,why wouldnt his grave have a Nordic feel to it ;D.I dont doubt that the Lindisfarne and Kells gospels were influenced by a Nordic culture,but it was a Aenglish culture though.
Edit; sorry for hijacking your thread Dane :'(
Dane:
--- Quote from: Loki on May 27, 2007, 11:20:28 am ---The Saxon buried in his Longboat at sutton Hoo was very much a Pagan,his Saxon Heritage is just as much nordic as the Danish Viking's,why wouldnt his grave have a Nordic feel to it ;D.I dont doubt that the Lindisfarne and Kells gospels were influenced by a Nordic culture,but it was a Aenglish culture though.
Edit; sorry for hijacking your thread Dane :'(
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Loki, no worries...I expected this to go in the direction it is heading. I have heard about that DNA study, and would love to take part, but I am only some Engish on my maternal side....English, Welsh, Scottish, but also French, German, and Dutch, and Italian and Sicilian from dad's side of the family. All confused is my ancestry. :) I like to think that in some of these horrific medieval and "dark ages" and ancient battles, all of my ancestors were beating each other up.
BTW, the art is wonderful and inspiring. Thanks all for posting it.
Loki:
You'll like this then ;D
Its a recreation of the pictish stone found at Hilton Cadboll,impressive isnt it? ;D
http://www.pictishstone.freeuk.com/Framesbase.htm
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