They seem both lived in ancient Danmark, and settled down in Britain later!. But Vikings harried and killed Celts because mose of them were pirates, when they came to Britain, right!? I read this on a book!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>History> Are the Celts and the Vikings the same people?Question: Are the Celts and the Vikings the same people!? They seem both lived in ancient Danmark, and settled down in Britain later!. But Vikings harried and killed Celts because mose of them were pirates, when they came to Britain, right!? I read this on a book!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hmmm, Celts is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic language!. The historical Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age Europe!. Proto-Celtic culture formed in the Early Iron Age in Central Europe (Hallstatt period)!. By the later Iron Age (La Tène period), Celts had expanded over wide range of lands: as far west as Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula, as far east as Galatia (central Anatolia), and as far north as Scotland!. By the early centuries AD, following the expansion of the Roman Empire and the Great Migrations of Germanic peoples, Celtic culture had become restricted to the British Isles (Insular Celtic), with the Continental Celtic languages extinct by the mid-1st millennium AD!. "Celtic Europe" today refers to the lands surrounding the Irish Sea, as well as Cornwall and Brittany on either side of the English Channel!. The Vikings by contrast were Norse (Scandinavian) peoples, famous as explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates, who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late 8th to the early 11th century!. These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland!. This period of Viking expansion is known as the Viking Age, and forms a major part of Scandinavian history, with a minor, yet significant part in European history!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The mistake is to see "the Celts" and "the Vikings" (from Denmark, at least) as different ethnicities!. There is no evidence for that - only evidence for different cultures and languages, separated by a few hundred years, which does not equal "ethnicity", much less anything to do with hair and eye colour!. The Celtic cultures (there was more than one) prinicipally covered areas in modern France, Italy, the Low countries, Germany, Ireland and Britain!. It would seem extremely likely that their descendents in present day Denmark and Germany became known as Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Vikings in the post-Roman world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com That's correct!. However, in a little more detail the vikings also killed the Celts because of religious and economic reasons!. The Celts were merchants and made more than the vikings so the Vikings pillaged the Celts for their land, gold and for slave!. There was also the fact that many of the Celts were Catholic while the vikings believed in Thor the Norse god of thunder!. They believed that when they died they went to Valhalla a land where you would forever fight and kill and rise and feast with your enemies and then fight again the next day!. Naturally there was conflict with the two religions so eventually it lead to a Viking-Celt genocide!. However, they did both sailed from the same lands and were essentially the same people just different ideals!.Www@QuestionHome@Com 'Celtic' is a rather vague term which is used to describe the people of western Europe in the iron age and in the time of the Roman empire!. it used to be thought that the 'Celts' had come here from somewhere else, but the modern consensus of opinion seems to be that the people of ancient Britain developed their culture themselves, rather than having a new culture imposed on them by invaders!. 'Viking' describes the Scandinavian invaders who terrorised western Europe during the 8th-10th centuries AD!. At the time that the Vikins began to invade England, it had been extensively settled by the Anglo-Saxons, who came here from Germany!. They had become predominant in England, though there had probably been a good deal of intermarriage with the Celtic population!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Celts originate from present day Scotland and Ireland!. I mean there are some different traditions among these two people like when Vikings die, they are buried in their boat with their possessions and their slaves!. Celts celebrate All Hallows Eve!. You were right that they were both settlers in Britain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com threeblindmice is right!. Two different cultures!. Celtic were spread from England till spain and foght against early Roman Emprire meanwhile Vikings are newer and come afterwards which maximum point of strenght were during the 7th, 8th, 9th Centuries!.Www@QuestionHome@Com No!. The Vikings were Germanic peoples and the Celts were Celtic peoples!. Both were Indo-Europeans, so they were "cousins", but they were not the same people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Celts colonised many parts of Europe and the Celtic language and Old Norse etc!. although distantly related are different languages!.So the two peoples must be ethnically distinct!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |