tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3858111020918052507..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: On Celts and CelticnessCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-51049602187567425312010-01-23T15:57:06.907-05:002010-01-23T15:57:06.907-05:00Simon James's website is a fantastic teaching ...Simon James's website is a fantastic teaching resource, so thanks for sharing that here.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-90615528130317907102010-01-23T14:36:37.144-05:002010-01-23T14:36:37.144-05:00Good morning, and thanks for the link!
The odd th...Good morning, and thanks for the link!<br /><br />The odd thing about the two conflicting presentations of things Celtic is that they each tend to ignore or misinterpret the data of the other school. The divide between the archaeologists/post-colonialists and the art historians/lit folk is awfully similar to the divide between nativists (Proinsias MacCana), and the opposition which finds a non-Irish source for everything (Kim McCone). <br /><br />Yet there's no reason for any of this to be a binary. We're talking about more than 3,000 yeas of history for peoples who spread across continents. <br /><br />But--there's no argument about the languages spoken by these peoples. They spoke I.E. Celtic languages. It's also interesting to me that neither camp acknowledges the way the people seem to have thought about themselves--which was very much in terms of local relationships and kin-groups. This is apparent in the languages, the stories, the laws, the history of warfare, and even the settlement and migration patterns. <br /><br />There's a practice of oath-offering in Old Irish: "Tongu da dia toinges mo thuath [I swear by the gods by whom my people swear] which very much emphasizes the forbidden nature of naming gods, and the local nature of those gods.Lisa Spangenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00916288400544629723noreply@blogger.com