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The words Celt and Celtic can have a variety of meanings.
Sometimes a pronunciation distinction is maintained - see Pronunciation of Celtic. The following may be pronounced either /kelt(ik)/ or /selt(ik)/, but in academic use there is a clear preference for /kelt(ik)/:
- European Celtic people, either ancient or Modern Celts
- Celtic languages, descending from the Proto-Celtic language, spoken by these people and their modern descendants
- Celtic Congress
- Celtic League (political organisation)
- Celtic mythology
- Celtici, Celts from ancient Lusitania (modern day Portugal). (See also Celtiberians for a Celtic people on the Iberian peninsula)
- Celtic music, referring to folk music that originated from "Celtic" cultures.
- Celtic nations The Irish Republic, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and Galicia.
- Celtic art, cultural art that avoids straight lines and only occasionally uses symmetry, or knotwork that is typically recognizable by interlocking lines and figures
- Celtic law
- Celtic Christianity
- Celtic calendar
- Pan-Celticism
- Celtic Sea
- Celtic League (rugby union)
- Celtic Alliance of America The Celtic Alliance of America was formed to raise awareness within the U.S. to the problems facing the Irish, Scottish, Cornish, and Welsh nations struggle for freedom and equality.
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Jacobs, Joseph :: Fairy Tales
@channing_h My cousin did our DNA and its Celtic in origin,and most of the British Celtics came from Spain!
Rosiecosy (Rosanne Kirk) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:21:07 -0000
@channing_h My cousin did our DNA and its Celtic in origin,and most of the British Celtics came from Spain!
"Very evocative of the myths and legends of the British Isles, particularly the Tuatha Dé Danann of Celtic legend." http://tiny.cc/0XMfC
Fantasyharper (Wendy Gillissen) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:46:29 -0000
"Very evocative of the myths and legends of the British Isles, particularly the Tuatha Dé Danann of Celtic legend." http://tiny.cc/0XMfC
Celtic Fairy Tales - By Joseph Jacobs (1892), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Meta Description: [ Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs, at sacred-texts.com ]
Celtic Folklore: The People of the Mounds - Articles on Celtic fairy lore and the Otherworld, published in Dalriada Magazine 1993.
English Fairy Tales - By Flora Annie Steel (1918), e-text from the Baldwin Project.
Fairy Legends and Traditions - By Thomas Crofton Croker (1825), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Meta Description: [ Fairy Legends and Traditions, by Thomas Crofton Croker, at sacred-texts.com ]
Grim and Havelock - Dedicated to the legend of Grim and his foster-son Havelok, Danish founders of the British town of Grimsby.
Meta Description: [ The legendary tale of Grim the fisherman and his foster-son, Havelok the Dane, features as being one of the earliest most delightful classic romances of antiquity. It has also been one of the most popular British folk-heroic legendary tales of all time, assuredly in a class with Robin Hood and Ki... ]
Manx Fairy Tales - By Sophia Morrison (1911), e-text from a Manx Note Book.
Meta Description: [ Index to Manx Fairy Tales, Sophia Morrison, 1911' ]
More Celtic Fairy Tales - By Joseph Jacobs (1892), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Meta Description: [ More Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs, at sacred-texts.com ]
Northumbrian Folk Tales - Traditional folk tales, songs, poems and rhymes from the northeast of England.
Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales - By Sir George Douglas (1901), at sacred-texts.com.
Meta Description: [ Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales by Sir George Douglas, at sacred-texts.com ]
The Secret Common-Wealth - Robert Kirk's 17th century monograph devoted to Celtic fairy lore, at sacred-texts.com.
The Welsh Fairy Book - By W. Jenkyn Thomas (1907), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive.
Meta Description: [ The Welsh Fairy Book, by W. Jenkyn Thomas at sacred-texts.com ]
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