Throughout Europe, the centuries-old Celtic languages are dying out, buried beneath a linguistic form of globalisation. Marcus Tanner reports on a cultural tragedy

At the village of St Anne la Palud in western Brittany, I followed the Celtic saints as they went down to the sea at the annual religious fete they call the "grand pardon". A mission to find out what remained of Europe's Celtic cultures brought me to this most traditional of Breton folk festivals, and I made a note of the names of the local saints embroidered on to brilliant, red and green banners, hoisted by sturdy Bretons in traditional dress. There they were, St Samson, St Meryadoc, St Pol and a host of other Welsh or Irish men and women, who had brought the Celtic faith and culture to this land about 1500 years before........

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[QUOTE=White Dragon]Throughout Europe, the centuries-old Celtic languages are dying out, buried beneath a linguistic form of globalisation. Marcus Tanner reports on a cultural tragedy

At the village of St Anne la Palud in western Brittany, I followed the Celtic saints as they went down to the sea at the annual religious fete they call the "grand pardon". A mission to find out what remained of Europe's Celtic cultures brought me to this most traditional of Breton folk festivals, and I made a note of the names of the local saints embroidered on to brilliant, red and green banners, hoisted by sturdy Bretons in traditional dress. There they were, St Samson, St Meryadoc, St Pol and a host of other Welsh or Irish men and women, who had brought the Celtic faith and culture to this land about 1500 years before........

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Wales is an odd place, with all it's strange place names in what looks like Gibberish to me.

When I work over in S.Ireland many of the TV channels were in Gaelic, a very strange language in my view. I didn't really like the sound of the Gaelic language to be honest, I like the stronger sound of the Germanic languages.

Both Ireland and Wales are strange places.....

[QUOTE=STORMSOLDAAT]Wales is an odd place, with all it's strange place names in what looks like Gibberish to me.

When I work over in S.Ireland many of the TV channels were in Gaelic, a very strange language in my view. I didn't really like the sound of the Gaelic language to be honest, I like the stronger sound of the Germanic languages.

Both Ireland and Wales are strange places.....[/QUOTE]

They are still Celtic countries, our kinsman, our folk, our White/Aryan culture.