Re: CHAT: The etymology of (King) Arthur (was Re: CHAT: reign names)

Ray Brown wrote:

> On Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 08:12 , Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
>> Quoting Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>>
> [snip]
>
>>> I still find it noteworthy that no ancient author ever referred to the
>>> inhabitants of Britain or Ireland as Celts, yet they knew Celts on the
>>> continent.
>>>
>>> Far too many assumptions are made IMHO about early Britain.
>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I might be uncharacteristically uninfected by the whole ol' "Celtic
>> Myth"
>>  for a
>> young westerner who spent much of his teens plowing thru Fantasy novels,
>> but
>> when I hear someone question whether the ancient inhabitants of the
>> British
>> Isles were "Celts", my immediate interpretation is linguistic - I
>> take it
>> as
>> questioning whether their languages belong to the same branch of IE
>> as do
>> the
>> continental Celtic languages (Gaulish and friends).
>
>
> Friends? AFAIK Gaulish is the only known one

I don't believe Gaulish is even the best known one.  Lepontic and
Celtiberian are also around(and Celtiberian is Q-Celtic).  Though the
Celticity of Lepontic is debateable.  It may be Italic, with Gaulish
influence.