At 2:01 am -0500 14/12/00, Adam Walker wrote:
>>From: Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
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>Interesting. There might have been surviving Continental Celtic langs too.
>Perhaps in southern France and the Iberian pen.
Possible - tho I think these areas, which were already coming under Punic
influence before the Romans interrupted the process, are most likely to
have become throuoghly Punicized.
The Celtic langs might've fared better in Britain & Ireland.
>How would the Slavs have been affected?
I don't know :)
>
>Christian North Africa. Germano-Celtic Christian Spain and France.
>Christianized Vikings? Launching crusades to liberate Arabized Italy and
>Greece. The Kiyev Califate? Wow! That opens a whole new can of worms.
It does.
>What happens to the age of exploration? The Renaisance? The Americas?
Who knows? It's depends how imaginative one is, I guess.
>Adam who likes this idea!
Good - please feel free to develop it.
Ray.
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