Very cool. Thanks for the history lesson and the trivia! Mel
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Keen Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:55 AM To: Just Chat; Where Anything Goes ... Almost! Subject: Re: Place names etc. Hi Welsh is a form of gaelic and that predates english in all it's forms by several centuries if not millennia. The celts were thought to have originated in what is now upper Hungary and migrated slowly via Greece to Egypt then along the North African coast crossing the land bridge between modern day Morocco and Spain. They then moved north in to France and the low countries until they crossed the North sea and forced the Beaker people in to the outer regions like Cornwall and Scotland gradually being absorb in to the Celtic tribes and became the ruling class until the Romans arrived. It's wonderful what D.N.A can tell us about the migration patterns of our ancestors. Of course it helps to have a history that stretches back further than 1492 A.D. ! Cheers G >From Bridgerule in glorious Devon, England. ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the just-chat group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
