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Saul (Irish: Sabhall, “barn”), in county Down, Ireland. Saul was the first monastery founded in Ireland by Patrick upon his return to the island in the year AD 432. It was originally a wooden barn, granted to him by a local chieftain named Dichú. The current church (pictured) was built in 1933. Saul is also reputed to be the location of Patrick’s death, on the 17th of March, in the year AD 461.
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Today is the Feast of St. Patrick (Pátraic in Old Irish, Pádraig in Modern Irish, Pàdraig in Scottish Gaelic, Padrig in Welsh, Petroc in Cornish), patron saint of Ireland, Nigeria, Montserrat, Clann Giolla Phádraig, as well as several Archdioceses.
Born near modern Carlisle in Roman Britain as the son of Calpurnius, deacon, Patrick was not an active believer in his youth. At 16, he was captured by a group of Irish pirates who enslaved him for six years. He wrote in his Confessions that being enslaved was crucially important to his spiritual development - God having great mercy on his ignorance as an adolescent and offering him the chance to be forgiven of his sins and convert. He prayed ceaselessly during his captivity and this solidified his relationship with God.
After his 6 years, a voice told him he would be back in his homeland soon. His ship was ready immediately, and he departed from his master to travel to a port some 200 miles away.
Somiedo Natural Park, Asturias, Spain. 🇪🇸
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Celtic Montefortino-style helmet discovered in the tomb of an Italic / Iapygian chieftain at Canosa di Puglia, in Apulia, Italy; 4th century B.C. 🇮🇹 The helmet is made from bronze and coral, and decorated in La Tène style. The helmet was either given as a gift, part of an exchange to cement an alliance between some of the Gauls Po valley Gauls and the local Peucetii tribe, or taken by the latter as a trophy during battle.
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Gold torc decorated in La Tène style, from the Belstead brook hoard, found near Ipswich, in Suffolk, England; 2nd or 1st century B.C.
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Bronze bracelet found near Vauroux, in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; 7th-5th centuries B.C. 🇨🇭On display at the Laténium Museum in Hauterive, Switzerland.
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Scottish highlanders in schiltron formation repelling an English knight; late 13th / early 14th century. Art by Angus McBride (1931-2007).
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NOTE: The allegations peddled by the article about the migrations in question being peaceful and non-violent should be taken with a grain of salt.
At play in the discrepancy is a matter of “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” They base themselves on a lack of signs of violence on skeletons in burials. The problem is that they’re analyzing what might be only 3% of the extant skeletons from that period. This is part of a revisionist trend in modern academia and archaeology to try and write off ancient historical accounts of warfare and invasion as mere myth. They support these arguments saying that “well, we dug up this village and didn’t find any signs of burning or cracked skulls.” This is founded in a fundamental lack of understanding of how ancient warfare worked. Ancients didn’t burn and massacre every single village they found. That’d be counter-productive as conquerors always preferred to keep farmers alive, as the latter would have been a source of tribute, which was the primary objective sought in ancient warfare to begin with. Often the violence happened away from settlements between armed men, followed by negotiations between chieftains, and battlefields are rarely ever discovered by archaeologists. However, when an archaeologist does come upon evidence of warfare (like Ötzi the ice-man, the evidence brutal military-scale violence at the bronze age Tollense battlefield in Germany, or the gruesome Gallic battle-trophy display at the sanctuary of Ribemont-sur-Ancre in France), they’re like: “Oh… well, I guess the ancients really did engage in a fair amount of fighting, after all.” Yet in spite of this, they continue publishing papers peddling the: “Ancient peoples lied to us about being warriors and everything happened peacefully and with gentle caresses and kind words, we haven’t found piles or corpses everywhere, so this must be true”. 🤡
So it’s not even a matter of absence of evidence, it’s a matter of ignoring and cherry-picking evidence, and of being too strict in one’s exclusive reliance on evidence. It’s a flawed an fallacious approach to the entire search for historical fact, which pervades in the academic and even the “scientific” communities.
https://www.sott.net/article/477958-Worlds-first-horse-riders-found-near-the-Black-Sea
The reliquary of Saint Manchán, county Offaly, Ireland; 12th century. 🇮🇪
The house-shaped box is made from bronze, silver, gilt copper alloy, and yew wood, and combines insular Celtic and Scandinavian styles of decoration . The reliquary was made to keep the remains of the 7th century Christian monk Manchán of Lemanaghan, who founded a small monastery at Lemanaghan in county Offaly around the year AD 645.
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Norman and Anglo-Saxon invaders ambushed in Wales; late 11th century. 🏴 Art by Angus McBride (RIP: 1931-2007). What was likely intended by the artist was to portray a scene from the Battle of Coed Yspwys (1094), during the Welsh Revolt of 1094-1099; an English army was defeated and put to flight by Cadwgan, son of Bleddyn, king of Powys.
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Queen Boudica, miniature crafted by Pedro Fernández Ramos; Origen Art.
Boudica was the wife of Prasutagus, king of the Celtic Iceni tribe (Norfolk, England, and surroundings). Prasutagus had bequeathed half his kingdom to Rome, half to his daughters. When he died in AD 61, the Roman procurator Catus Decianus broke faith, seized the whole kingdom, had Boudica flogged, and her daughters raped. Boudica then led her tribe and the neighboring Trinovantes in a violent revolt. The Roman colonies of Colchester, London and St. Albans were sacked; the inhabitants tortured and killed. A Roman army (Legio IX Hispana + auxiliaries) led by general Q. Petilius Cerialis was ambushed and cut to pieces while en route to relieve Colchester. Decianus fled across the channel to Gaul. Boudica was eventually defeated in battle by governor G. Suetonius Paulinus, and the revolt was crushed; she chose to commit suicide by poison rather than surrender.
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Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) covering a forest floor in the Cambrian mountains of Wales. 🏴
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Killary Fjord, in Connemara, Ireland. 🇮🇪 Unfortunately, the purple flowers in the foreground are not native heather, but invasive Rhododendron Ponticum imported from either southern Europe or western Asia.
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Slemish Mountain, in county Antrim, Ireland. This is the location where, according to Patrick’s Confession, he was a slave for 6 years, herding sheep in the fields beneath the mountain. Patrick worked there for a local chieftain and druid named Milchú.
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Culdee monks on the Isle of Colonsay, in Argyll, Scotland; 7th or 8th century. 🏴 Art by Alan R. Braby.
“Culdees” (Irish: Céilí Dé, “companions of God”) is the name often given to early Christian monks in the Celtic-speaking parts of the British isles (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall); they also had a notable presence in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Unlike European monks of the later medieval period, Culdees usually dressed in white.
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Bronze brooch, formerly set with precious stone or glass, from the Ballinderry crannóg, county Westmeath, Ireland; 9th century AD. 🇮🇪
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A linguistic analysis of Celtic epigraphy and onomastics (the study of ancient inscriptions and place & personal names, respectively) in the Spanish regions Asturias, León and Cantabria. 🇪🇸
Consistently, linguists who analyse the epigraphic and historical data from the northernmost parts of Spain, come to the same conclusion: There is substantial evidence that in pre-Roman times, the northern peoples of Iberia (Gallaecians, Asturians, Cantabrians, Autrigones, Vardulians, etc.) spoke a Celtic language. However, there is also substantial evidence of the presence of another language, also Indo-European, and predating the introduction of a Celtic tongue. This has led to debate as to whether these peoples spoke a Celtic language, or a different, more archaic Indo-European, akin to the language known as “Lusitanian”.
The evidence seems to indicate that both languages, or elements thereof, were in use simultaneously. The most likely scenario is that the peoples of northern Iberia had developed a kind of pidgin language, a hybrid between the Celtic tongue introduced by Celtiberian migrants, and the native Hispanic Indo-European that was predominant before their arrival. This often occurs in the context of trickling migration, commerce, and substantial intermarriage. A perfect example are the Métis peoples of Canada & the northern United States. As their name implies (Métis is a French cognate to the Spanish word mestizo, meaning “a mixed-race person”), they are a product of intermarriage between native Americans and French migrants and merchants. In the case of the Ojibwe tribe, genetic tests have indicated that as many as 80% of them belong to a Western European paternal lineage of descent. The language of many Métis peoples, known as Michif, is in like manner, a pidgin hybrid between French and Cree Algonquian, and some Métis peoples speak only Canadian French.
Unlike the movements of French colonists in north America, evidence for Celtic migration into the region of the Cantabrian mountains is severely lacking. From history, we only know of one northward migration, which was documented by the Greek geographer Strabo: That of a Celtiberian people, the Celtici of present-day southern Spain & Portugal, some of whom went north into Galicia at an unknown date. On the other hand, the Spanish archaeologist Eduardo Peralta Labrador noted (Los Cántabros Antes de Roma; 2003) how the material culture of the northern Cantabrian people was so thoroughly “Celtiberianized”, that a significant degree of migration and intermarriage between the two peoples had to be considered as the most likely scenario. If the linguistic data is factored in as another volume of evidence, it too contributes to the conclusion as to the likelihood of said scenario.
Article here:
https://lligaceltadasturies.wordpress.com/2017/09/15/celtic-onomastics-and-toponymy-in-asturias/
Artistic reconstruction of the early medieval crannog (lake dwelling) of Buiston, in Ayrshire, Scotland; art by Alan R. Braby. 🏴
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Keem bay, on Achill Island, in county Mayo, Ireland. 🇮🇪
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Gallic Montefortino style iron helmet, found at an unknown location in northern Italy; 4th century B.C. 🇮🇹 On display at the Museo della Prehistoria in Milan, Italy.
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A healthy “Caledonian Forest” habitat in Lochaber, Scotland. 🏴
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The Arrabalde treasure hoard, over 5 kg of silver and gold jewelry, including characteristic La Tène style torques, discovered in a Hispano-Celtic (Asturian) settlement near Arrabalde, in Zamora province, Spain; 1st century B.C. 🇪🇸
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Sheep grazing and resting on the pastures of the Trotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland. 🏴
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Gold bracelet found near Lasgraïsses, in the Tarn department of France; 3rd century B.C. 🇫🇷
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Got us another shoe… this one probably belonged to a child.
https://www.sott.net/article/477727-3000-year-old-leather-shoe-discovered-in-the-UK
Leather shoe from the Kilbwerk salt mine, near Hallstatt, Austria; 7th-5th century B.C. 🇦🇹
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The coronation of king Alexander III of Scotland, on the Moot Hill of Scone; year 1249. 🏴 Image from Folio 206 of the 15th century history book Scotichronicon, written by Walter Bower.
Alexander was a mere 7 years old when he was crowned. The image shows him flanked by Malcolm II, the Mormaer of Fife, and by his mother Marie de Coucy, who was a great-granddaughter of king Louis VI of France. He is being addressed by the chief minstrel of Scotland with the Gaelic phrase (Am) Beannachd Dhè (dhan) Rìgh Albann (The Blessing of God to the king of Scotland).
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Ghillie suits; a common feature of modern warfare, mostly for use by snipers.
Not many people know this, but ghillie suits were first designed and crafted by people in the Scottish Highlands for use as camouflage during hunting expeditions; they were simple nets with strips of cloth attached. The word “ghillie” is derived from the Gaelic word gille, which means “boy” or “servant” (in the context of fosterage and apprenticeship). The term could derive from the fact that young boys used to wear the suits while acting as spotters to track game animals for hunters, or from the mythical Gille Dubh (lit. “black boy”), a mountain spirit featured in the folklore of the Gairloch area of the Scottish Highlands. The first known military use of ghillie suits was by the Lovat Scouts, during the Second Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902). They were Scottish Highland recruits who later went on to form the British army’s first sniper unit.
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