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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts
Subject: Re: Druids
Message-ID: <119@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 15:25:16 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.119
Posted: Mon Dec  9 15:25:16 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 19:43:41 EST
References: <2234@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <2234@reed.UUCP> ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) writes:
>Druids were priests of certain Celtish and Pictish peoples of
>the British Isles (and possibly also Brittany) prior to
>the Roman conquest of the islands circa A.D. 400 (?) ...
>(the Roman invasion from the east drove the Celts westward to
>these lands)...

     Just to correct some minor points...
     Britain was conquered completely by the Romans in the time of Emperor
Claudius, in the first century A.D.  However, the Romans did not attempt to
heavily colonize Britain, just to hold it against other powers.
     The Romans *left* in the 4th or 5th century, and the Germanic peoples,
led by Hengist and Horsa, streamed across the North Sea.  A.D. 449 is the
standard date given as the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon period of British
history.  The Anglo-Saxons were mainly responsible for pushing the Celts
back into the western and northern parts of the island.
     Later Celts thought of the Romans as benign protectors, and many Welsh
kings traced their lineage back to Brutus, the first Roman to call himself
King of Britain.

--Jamie.
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