Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ptsfc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!psuvax1!burdvax!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittatc!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!amd!amdcad!lll-crg!qantel!ptsfa !ptsfc!rjw From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts Subject: Re: Druids (actually Re: Romans) Message-ID: <490@ptsfc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 12:53:59 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfc.490 Posted: Wed Dec 11 12:53:59 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Dec-85 04:07:24 EST References: <2234@reed.UUCP <119@ubc-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) Organization: Pacific Bell Lines: 16 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 Romans never made it to Ireland. We were always taught at school that the wimps were so afraid of the ferocious Irish warriors that they reluctantly contented themselves with equally-wimpy England. Alas, this older and wiser Irish warrior suspects that Hibernia was not considered worth the trip (:-() -- rod williams | {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw ------------------------------------------- pacific bell | san ramon | california