I am not convinced Germanics and Celts are distinct genetic groups. These may have been random arbitrary classifications made by Romans. Sort of like how Americans call everyone in the Middle East "arab" even though their are many ethnic groups there.
Also the idea that "Celtic" people in The British Isles would be the same as "Celtic" people in France doesn't make sense. Would you say that English speaking Americans are the same genetically as English speaking British people? Then why would Celtic speaking Britons have genetic sameness with Celtic speaking Gauls(pre-Roman & pre-Frank France)?
And were the Gauls even majority Celtic? From what I understand there were a variety of tribes in there. But I have not even analyzed the languages, are Celtic and Germanic languages even very distinct? If they are distinct language groups, then the only thing we can say are Celtic and Germanic would be languages. That would not be evidence of Celtic and Germanic genetics.
And if you look at Ireland they had Norse migration during the Viking era. But what makes you think they would have only had Norse migration then? Ireland could have been experiencing migrations of Norse and others for thousands of years prior to the Viking Age. Europeans have been in Europe and moving around well before recorded history. That would mean you would have all sorts of people moving between tribes and tribes moving around to different territories.
The idea of distinct Germanic and Celtic genetic groups doesn't make sense. As for linguistics I am not sure about that. You can have certain genetic clusters within Ireland and England and France, and etc. But the idea of Celtic or Germanic DNA does not make sense to me.
There is Western European DNA groupings. But I wouldn't call those groupings Celtic or Germanic. I might define those groupings according to land, France, Ireland, Italy, England, etc.
Celts are proud that vikings fucked their mothers.
Levi Bennett
In very ancient times, they were linked by Doggerland. In Roman days, there was such a thing as boats. Look at the Veneti trib. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneti_(Gaul)
Logan Wood
Yes very , note Modern English has almost no influence from Celtic.
Alice went to the market to buy some apples Alice ging zum Markt, um ein paar Äpfel zu kaufen
Alice ging naar de markt om wat appels te kopen
Alice gick på marknaden för att köpa några äpplen
Now for Celtic languages
Chuaigh Alice go dtí an margadh chun roinnt úlla a cheannach
Aeth Alice i'r farchnad i brynu rhai afalau
Adam Rodriguez
This is the result of the brits being conquered by Romans (Latin), Anglo-saxon (old german) and then Normans (vikings who speak a french dialect).
Adrian White
Germanic is more of relation to the culture and language then a distinct people. What people are calling Germanics are genetically Scandinavians who developed another culture.
Celts are distinct enough they have been separated long enough and are a result of Neolithic (Southern Europeans), Western hunter gatherer(proto-europeans), and Yamnaya (Scandinavians).
Jaxson Russell
Did the Germanics heed the words of the Druids? Whilst our understand of the Celtic world is very much lacking, we do know that tribesmen from all over Gaul traveled to Anglesey in Britain to attend the Druidic university. What that entailed we have no idea as the education was entirely oral, and everything the Druids did was only oral as a rule; so we only have these second hand accounts informing us that this stuff happened.
So yes, my question is simply: Did the Germanics revere the Druids and travel to Anglesey for pilgrimage/training? Or was it a purely Celtic thing?
Cameron Watson
What if Celts/Picts etc. are the actual Albans/Aryans? Those who survived in frozen regions and on remote mountains, or on the seas.
Engels and Marx wanted to genocide Bretons, Scots, south Slavs and some other nations due to finding them too "incompatible" with their utopian ideas while they liked Germans who they just found "misguided" . Germans were just a different tribe of Aryans, but lacking the inherent wisdom of their "older brothers" , which at one point got restored.
American flag looks like Breton flag with some color variations, Armorica - America. Can some user shed more light on this?
Levi Taylor
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Cooper Rogers
Celts were a form of Christianity, that built cellars and whose monks lived in cells in celibacy. The word means source,( german Quelle, scots Kelda ) and is purged in English in this meaning.
Germanic are an invention of the Prussian Empire, since they need a foundational myth that could be used keep Germans on the same team, and not Hessian, Saxon, Preusse, Bavarian… and not separated by Catholic or Protestant denominations.
