Artists impression of some coloured Celtic shields.
(Asterix and the Roman agent - Albert Uderzo & René Goscinny)Is it “keltic” or “seltic”?
A hard “c”. The word in Greek (Keltoi) and thus in Latin (Celtae) used a hard “c”, and it’s only through French (Celte) that we’ve historically used a soft “c” in English. This is preserved in the name of some sports clubs, but modern English usage has reverted to the hard “c”.
Language is fun sometimes.
This is a little confusing to me. The shields are called Celtic in style, but the raid from which they were captured was on boats constructed on the Baltic coast and occurred on Als, just off the east coast of mainland Denmark.
Does this tell us that what we attribute to Celtic culture was much more widespread, or that the attack force may have been Celts?
Are those big ole truck nuts on the shields?
