Re: "Kauderwelsch" (was: LUNATIC SURVEY: 2005)

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> There's an interesting essay by Tolkien ("English and Welsh") where he
> states that _welsh_ didn't mean 'weird foreign language' but involved a
> statement on the beauty of the sounds of the foreign language: Only
> nice-sounding languages rich of vowels were called _welsh_, that is,
> Romances and Welsh.
Were the Gaelic langs considered "Welsh" by the Anglo-Saxons? Apart from the
other Germanic languages, they're about the only non-Welsh, non-Romance
languages the Anglo-Saxons will have had much exposture to. Well, possibly also
Pictish.

                                                         Andreas

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