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Abstract. This chapter traces the history of the early Celts of Ireland and Britain. The earliest reports on Britain and Ireland came from Greek seafarers who reached the ‘tin islands’ in the North Sea, known as Kassiterides, on their trading voyages beyond the Straits of Gibraltar in the sixth century bc.
Continental Celts are the Celtic-speaking people of mainland Europe and Insular Celts are the Celtic-speaking people of the British and Irish islands, and their descendants. The Celts of Brittany derive their language from migrating Insular Celts from Britain and so are grouped accordingly.
The Continental Celtic languages are the now-extinct group of the Celtic languages that were spoken on the continent of Europe and in central Anatolia, as distinguished from the Insular Celtic languages of the British Isles and Brittany. Continental Celtic is a geographic, rather than linguistic, grouping of the ancient Celtic languages.
And so ‘Celtic Studies: Myth, Tradition, Spirituality’ provides a sound and up-to-date introduction to the myth, folk tradition and spirituality of the ‘insular Celts’ – the British Isles and Ireland – and explores their relevance to our lives and practices today. This course does not exclude England, but also focuses on Cornwall ...
English – The Celtic Calendar. There is no evidence that any group of Celts celebrated all of the eight dates on our list at any one time. Four of these dates are precisely set by the movements of the heavens, have been honoured for millenna, and were considered important enough to have had vast stone alignments built some 6000 years ago in ...
Contact between Christianity and Insular Celtic paganism were initiated before the declaration of Christianity as the official religion of England in 312 A.D. The Gregorian Mission in 596 A.D, which decreed conversion of all pagans to Christianity, as well as the Christian take-over of Ireland by 600 A.D., accelerated the rise of Christianity.
Celts, unfortunately, details of their general culture are not directly accessible, prehistoric musicology is on uncertain ground,5 and the insular Celtic records which do mention the old belief system are heavily corrupted by Christian doctrinal influences. One must infer what one can from the surviving evidence:
