graidawg wrote:red hair and beard. thats celt. vikings were
celts too. but hey we could do a dna test, i have always
wondered why i am the only redhead in my family. Celts are/were
Celts, Vikings, vikings. Sprung from the Teutonic tribes as they
moved north, and eventually into Scandinavia. I subscribe to the
idea, the Vikings/Teutons bred the locals in Ireland, and gave
them red hair and size. The Celts were well established in
Ireland a century before Christ, and they dominated the island
for nearly a thousand years, resisting challenges and absorbing
influences from other cultures for many centuries more. To this
day the core of Ireland's heritage remains unmistakably Celtic.
Writing depicts the Celts as tall and warlike, placing their
arrival in Ireland more than two thousand years ago. The term
Celtic denotes a group of Indo-European languages. But we
transferred the name to the people who spoke these languages.
Before 500 B.C. the Celts had come to be known in an area
comprising Bavaria, Switzerland, Au