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CHAPTER VII.
Keltic Ground. European Divisions of Aryan Language.
Turkish, Magyar. Etruscan. Basque. Are Latin
AND Greek Keltic ? German and French Keltic
Scholars. Marcellus of Bordeaux. Zeuss and
Windisch on Irish. Wharton and Windisch on
Greek. Changes in Keltic Ground, Object of
Vocabulary.
I HAVE already indicated in a former chapter Keltic ground
the Keltic ground, namely, the British Islands/^'"'"'^'^'
Gaul, the Cymric peninsula ; crossing the Rhine
and north of the Danube, Bohemia and Moravia;
crossing the Danube on its southern bank,
Rhaetia, Vindelicia, Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia,
and Thrace. In Asia, Galatia or Gallo'^ Grsecia.
Returning by Greece and Italy, it is admitted
that the whole of Northern Italy was Keltic, as
was the whole of Helvetia and Spain. Gener-
ally speaking, we might have returned from
Asia Minor through the Mediterranean to the
Atlantic, leaving Keltic ground always on the
right. We have also seen that the broad divi-
sions of the Aryan tongue in Europe were the
Slav, the German, the Keltic, the Latin, and European
the Greek. We have also seen that these a^™°^
peoples were of the same race, in so far as a ^^"2"^^^'
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Keltic Ground. European Divisions of Aryan Language.
Turkish, Magyar. Etruscan. Basque. Are Latin
AND Greek Keltic ? German and French Keltic
Scholars. Marcellus of Bordeaux. Zeuss and
Windisch on Irish. Wharton and Windisch on
Greek. Changes in Keltic Ground, Object of
Vocabulary.
I HAVE already indicated in a former chapter Keltic ground
the Keltic ground, namely, the British Islands/^'"'"'^'^'
Gaul, the Cymric peninsula ; crossing the Rhine
and north of the Danube, Bohemia and Moravia;
crossing the Danube on its southern bank,
Rhaetia, Vindelicia, Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia,
and Thrace. In Asia, Galatia or Gallo'^ Grsecia.
Returning by Greece and Italy, it is admitted
that the whole of Northern Italy was Keltic, as
was the whole of Helvetia and Spain. Gener-
ally speaking, we might have returned from
Asia Minor through the Mediterranean to the
Atlantic, leaving Keltic ground always on the
right. We have also seen that the broad divi-
sions of the Aryan tongue in Europe were the
Slav, the German, the Keltic, the Latin, and European
the Greek. We have also seen that these a^™°^
peoples were of the same race, in so far as a ^^"2"^^^'
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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