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Topic: Matters Arising | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 3607 Views: 1016039 |
Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 9:37 am Subject: Matters Arising |
The letter below has been sent to The Times.
Dear Sir, A Museum of English That there is to be a museum of the English language would be welcome were it not clear that it will feature the ... |
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Topic: Myth-making | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 180 Views: 61595 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:47 pm Subject: Myth-making |
Although I do not think it matters whether Beowulf was faked or not (it does not seem to have much relevance to English history), Mick's remarks strike more than one chord in me. As I had to fake Gree ... | |
Topic: Arthurian Romance | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 229 Views: 141068 |
Forum: British History Posted: 8:52 pm Subject: Arthurian Romance |
What do readers think of the recent suggestion that Arthur was a Bronze Age hero who kept being updated by later generations? Throwing swords, bronze ones, into lakes was a favoured though expensive B ... | |
Topic: Seven Words | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 23 Views: 54580 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 9:46 am Subject: Re: Seven Words |
Coombe (cwm)
Coombe is old English, and not necessarily a loan from the Welsh cwm. Perhaps they have a common ancestry. Students of British place names have tended to exaggerate affinities with ... |
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Topic: Hill Forts | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 1328 Views: 401935 |
Forum: British History Posted: 9:34 am Subject: Hill Forts |
That the Greek 'purgos' and 'burgh', 'burg', and even 'berg' are cognates is noted in my 1901 edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. It is used by Homer and Hesiod, as well as later wri ... | |
Topic: Hill Forts | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 1328 Views: 401935 |
Forum: British History Posted: 11:03 pm Subject: Rousay and West Shetland |
When I said that Rousay was a good place to study ancient settlement I was referring to the abundance of evidence, not that it was representative, which it clearly is not. The remains of some brochs a ... | |
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change? | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 735 Views: 356470 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 10:36 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change? |
'Old up. Gaulish is reckoned to be a Celtic language; as you say, not an IE let alone a Romance language.
I find the term 'Celtic' useless. As the Danes believe their language, which is clearly Norse ... |
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Topic: Hill Forts | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 1328 Views: 401935 |
Forum: British History Posted: 1:18 pm Subject: Brochs and farming |
Last I heard, orthodoxy was bending over backwards to show that a self-sustaining arable life was possible in the Shetlands if they spread enough alkaline(?) sand on the acidic(?) soil; but it is only ... | |
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change? | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 735 Views: 356470 |
Forum: Linguistics Posted: 12:55 pm Subject: Peoples of the Atlantic Facade |
I am a new boy and must start with a confession to Mick. I was once 'a public school classical scholar', albeit a rather plebeian one as the City of Birmingham paid my fees at King Edward's School, an ... | |
Topic: Hill Forts | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 1328 Views: 401935 |
Forum: British History Posted: 8:53 am Subject: Hill Forts |
My disagreements with Mick's hypotheses are too tiny to bother with. I am much more concerned to show that the DNA and linguistic evidence supports him. Will do that on another thread.
There is one ... |
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Topic: Hill Forts | |
Geoff Gardiner Replies: 1328 Views: 401935 |
Forum: British History Posted: 7:50 pm Subject: Hill forts |
New to the group I have not yet read all the submissions, but feel I can raise a query on hill forts.
I live within walking distance of Blunsdon hill fort, and not very far from Barbury Castle. Eve ... |
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