--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > > > The Celts were here long before Columbus, and some native > > American > > > > languages have much gaelic in them. The similarities are > > striking. > > > > Place names (and meanings), names of rivers (and meanings) etc. > > > > They must have been friendly and respectful to each other. > > > > > > I've read that somewhere. What happened to > > > them, any idea? > > > > > > The only trouble is that for any given group > > > of people, there's *somebody* who is absolutely > > > positive they settled here at some point, > > > including Vedic Indians and Israelites (there > > > are claims that the Native Americans were the > > > Lost Tribes thereof), as well as various groups > > > of refugees from Atlantis. >> > > > > It is a scholarly fact that the Celts came to New England. Not some > > vague sectarian myth. > > Wasn't suggesting it was. That's why I went > on to ask what had happened to them. > > > Little is known of what happened to them. Perhaps you are thinking > > that because the Pilgrims were so vulnerable here that the Celts > > would be also. > > Uh, no, I was thinking that the Celts don't seem > to, you know, be here any longer.>>>
> <snip> > > One must not assume just because they arrived that they did not go > > back and forth. > > I wasn't assuming that. > > <uncrossing eyes> > > Thanks for your speculations (about the Celts, at > any rate). >>> Another intelligent discussion at FFL is strarved of light and bites the dust. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
