![]() ![]() “I have chosen the title The Celtic Empire for this history perhaps somewhat mischievously. Ellis admits as much in the opening pages of his book: ![]() Luckily, historian Peter Berresford Ellis, author of A Dictionary of Irish Mythology, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, and The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends, had produced such a book in 1990, facetiously titled The Celtic Empire.įacetiously, because (and this was something I did already know) the Celts never maintained a centralized empire the way the Macedonians did under Alexander the Great, or the way the Romans did under Julius Caesar. Recognizing my own profound ignorance, I set out on a quest for a definitive book on Celtic history so that I might expand my measly, meager, mite-sized knowledge of the subject. their language, their music) continue to this day.īada-bing bada-boom, put a golden torc around my neck and let’s call it a day. ![]() Old France-France before it got all Frenchified), the Celts ended up in Ireland and Scotland and other territories on the fringes of northwestern Europe, where elements of their culture (e.g. The Celts were a bunch of fierce, tribal warriors who painted themselves blue and gave the Romans tons of grief. If you’re anything like I was (prior to my Celtic history enlightenment), your version of the history of the ancient Celts probably goes something like this: ![]()
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