The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

128 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

non-Arvan, round-headed, darkish, small-statured race of south Germany and Switzerland, and that “ Celts ” properly so-called are “totally lacking in the British Isles.’* Thus, to speak, as is so commonly done, of “‘ Celtic ancestry,” the “Celtic temperament ’’ and “Celtic fire’’ amongst any section of the natives of these islands, is, according to anthropologists, merely imaginary !

The term “ Celt’ or “ Kelt”’ is entirely unknown as the designation of any race or racial element or language in the British Isles, until arbitrarily introduced there a few generations ago. Nor does the name even exist in the so-called “ Celtic ’’ languages, the Gaelic, Welsh and Irish. It is, on the contrary, the classic Greek and Latin title of a totally different race of a totally difierent physical type from that of the British Isles, and that word was only introduced there by unscientific philologists and ethnologists some decades ago.

The “Celts” or “ Kelts”’ first appear in history, under that name, in the pages of Herodotus (480-408 B.c.). He calls them “ Ke/f-oi”” and locates them on the continent of Western Europe.

He says: ‘‘ For the Ister [Danube], beginning from the Kelt-oi . . . divides Europe in its course; but the Kelt-o7 fof Gaul?] are beyond the pillars of Hercules, and border on the territories of the Kunési-oi or Kunet-oi [supposed to be Finnistere] who live the furthest to the west of all the peoples of Europe.’’?

Strabo, writing a few decades after Czesar’s epoch, gives further details regarding the ancient Greek information on the Celts, whom he calls “ Kelt-ai ”

Hesays: “‘ Theancient Greeks . . . afterwards becoming acquainted with those natives towards the west, styled them ‘ Kelt-ai’ {Kelts} and ‘ [bevi-én’ [Iberians], sometimes compounding the names into ‘ Kelti-Iberien ’ or * Kelto-Scythian ’ —thus ignorantly uniting various distinct nations.”

1 But see later.

2 Herodotus ii, 33; iv, 49; also XNenophon (d. 359 B,C.) Hellenica, vil, T, 20.

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