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How long have the Celts lived in Britain? Detailed answer Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? How long have the Celts lived in Britain? Since June 21, 1792. It was on this day that a group of London "bards" staged a completely invented ceremony on Primrose Hill - they even laid out a stone circle from the cobblestones - declaring that by doing so they supposedly revived a ritual that goes back to the ancient tribes of the Celts and their druids. According to official sources, to this date the word "Celt" as a description of the inhabitants of Britain or Ireland before the arrival of the Romans was never used, and certainly not a term that these peoples called themselves. The word "Celt" was coined by the Greek historian Herodotus in 450 BC. e .: he named them the tribes that lived in the upper reaches of the Danube, north of the Alps. The Romans used another word, Galli (meaning "chicken people"). The inhabitants of the British Isles they called Brittani and never called them "Celts". The appearance of the word "Celt" in the English language occurred in the XVII century. Oxford-based Welsh linguist Edward Lluyd drew attention to the similarities inherent in the languages spoken in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. He called these languages "Celtic" - and the name stuck. The word "Celtic" is also used to describe the "curl" style of various jewelry sold in Irish souvenir shops. There is, however, no evidence that such a design was conceived by an ethnically homogeneous group of people. Most modern historians believe that the language and culture that we are accustomed to call "Celtic" spread through contact, not invasion. People "became" Celts, adopting architecture, fashion, manner of speaking, because they found them useful and attractive, and not at all because they belonged to the same ethnic group. Romantic representation of the empire of the Celts - skilled craftsmen who adored their horses; old and wise druids; harp-stringing poets; ferocious bearded warriors - all this is a product of the so-called "epoch of the Celtic Renaissance", which began at the end of the XNUMXth century. And it has much more to do with modern Irish, Welsh and Scottish nationalism than with historical reality. Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson Random interesting fact from the Great Encyclopedia: Who and when was officially awarded the Order for drunkenness? Peter I struggled with drunkenness by various methods. For particularly distinguished alcoholics, he ordered to make a cast-iron order "For drunkenness" weighing about 7 kg, excluding the chain. It was hung around the neck of drunkards in the police station and fastened with chains so that it could not be removed, forcing them to walk in this form for a week.
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