Trjoans? Celts? What?

True, but as a MacLeod (on my Mum’s side) how Germanic would my forefathers have been?

Viper01 might be my cousin 353 times removed! 😀

Steve

As a current day barbarian of Germanic decent, i can proudly say to most people of Celtic decent without blue eyes/black hair and/or a funny language:

– – – y o u – h a v e – b e e n – a s s i m i l a t e d – – –

😀

Distiller – proud to be of barbaric German roots! 😀

I’m always the one telling my friends not to be too thightly focused or narrow minded when it comes to archeology and the capablities of the old folks. But I think there is no real dispute about where and when Troy was – phase VIh.
Of course that war was not about a gal, but about more importnat things like trade and resources. And some people say there was no war at all, and others say the Greek invented the story based around the walls they found at Troy when they settled that area.
The fact Wilkens mentiones – that no traces can be found in the local names in todays Turkey – is no suprise, since the population changed completely twice.
And btw, Cornwall was not the only source of tin during the bronze age, there also exosted mines in the central Taurus mountains in Turkey, north of Tarsus at todays Goltepe and Kestel.

Originally posted by mixtec
Highly doubtful. Its true that the greeks traded in Britain, but there is no evidence of any major civilization existsting in Britain for anytime that the Greek “empire” existed (aprox 800 bc to 300 bc). Just another attept by Brits to draw a link between themselves and Greece and deny they were merely decended from Celtic and Germanic barbarians. It should be mentioned though the Iberian celts were sought after by Greeks and Carthaginians as mercenary foot infantry

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Iman Jacob Wilkens was born in the Netherlands in 1936, and worked in Paris as an economist from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. Ever since grammar school he was intrigued by the origin of Homes epics. Eventually he unraveled the pieces of a complicated puzzle.

Steve Rush (more than proud of his Celtic roots, ta!)

Highly doubtful. Its true that the greeks traded in Britain, but there is no evidence of any major civilization existsting in Britain for anytime that the Greek “empire” existed (aprox 800 bc to 300 bc). Just another attept by Brits to draw a link between themselves and Greece and deny they were merely decended from Celtic and Germanic barbarians. It should be mentioned though the Iberian celts were sought after by Greeks and Carthaginians as mercenary foot infantry