Bairrfhionn verhält sich altersgemäß (p.019)
8 Jun 2009 08:00
- 1. On Sunday, June 21 2009, 12:10 by Xenda
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( US)
the race that inhabited ireland before the celts? i am not sure, but i beleive that i read some where that there had been something like pygmy bones found in a barrow in central ireland, on some mountain, i think. i was pretty young when i read it, and only remember it because they had also found a very large lizard skeleton that had sockets for what could have been wings, but they werent like pterodactyl or bird wing sockets.
- 2. On Sunday, June 21 2009, 13:44 by mirlikovir
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( FR)
@Xenda : Hi there !
According to the Book of Invasions, there were many...
On the archaeological point of view, precedent settlers were Neolithic men. First proof being the wealth of standing stones, sepulchres,...As for weird archaeological finds, a monkey skeleton was found in Armagh (and WE at OGHME COMICS are positive Emain Macha was situated at Armagh, not Navan Fort (come on, now, shoot at us !)). Meant one thing : people did a lot of exchanges in those days already.
Sea was by no means a frontier (as some authors long tried to make us believe).
My co-worker Cathbad knows that : though he lives on a god forsaken island, he comes to the continnent at least once a week. If Cathbad can do it, so could neolithic men.
- 3. On Monday, June 22 2009, 09:10 by Xenda
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( US)
well, i only bring up the pygmies because of the fact that they are a small people, but correctly proportioned. they would look like miniature humans, or elves, fairies, leprechauns. the people before the inhabitants of ireland. especially if they had been used like slaves as the africans had been in america. rape has always been a part f mans uglier side, but still one that for some reason we cannot escape wholly. this is all speculation, though...
- 4. On Tuesday, June 23 2009, 03:01 by cathbad
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( FR)
@Xenda : The origin of faeries
this is an interesting subject. I personnaly don't have a clue. Read everything and its contrary, and anthologies like Stith Thomson's Motif index didn't help me much. Neither did Sir James George Frazer. I'd rather go the Mircea Eliade way if I had the choice.
(but wait, I have the choice!)So,... dunno for the origins, but one thing is certain, there were exchanges going on during the Iron Age (and most certainly neolithic as well) between inhabitants of Ireland and other (distant) countries. At least commercial.
See you Xenda and thanks for your interest !!
