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   Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:21:18 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   King Arthur left ancient trail across Britain. Experts say it offers clues about the truth behind the myth
   https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/king-arthur-left-an-ancient-trail-across-britain-experts-say-it-offers-clues-about-the-truth-behind-the-myth-1.7112783

   * mythic Celtic warlord; held Anglo Saxon invasion of what would become England
   * leader of tribe of Celts, Indigenous Britons, when Saxons invaded 5th century Britain
   * fierce pockets of resistance f. Celts esp. Wales, Cornwall
   * myth likely rooted amalgamation of var. hist. char.

   #Celts #Britain #KingArthur #myths #legends #history #BritishHistory #anthropology

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     LillyLyle/Count Melancholia (lillyherself@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 02:27:47 JST LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

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     @persagen Cool statue. But note that the "Celts" were not an indigenous people in Britain, but migrated there from the continent. They were pushed back into Scotland and Wales by the Romans.

     In Scotland the Picts were around before the Celts arrived, and cohabited with them. No one knows where the Picts came from.

     Keltoi was a name given by the Greeks to a tribe of people living in the south of France. It was not what they called themselves.