Celts by the Baltic Sea

It started beforehand. The Goidelics were also invading Britain.

I thought they were only invading in western Scotland and committing raids upon the west of wales and England? Surely raids alone would not be enough to push people to migrate en mass.
 
I thought they were only invading in western Scotland and committing raids upon the west of wales and England? Surely raids alone would not be enough to push people to migrate en mass.
They were not the only reason. Some Brythonic troops were probably stationed in Armorica beforehand. Then the Brythons moved to it because there were already Brythons there, plus the raids.

Then there was another wave caused by the Anglo-Saxons.

And they didn't really migrate en masse, Welsh is Brythonic and Cornish was, there were plenty of them who stayed.
 
They were not the only reason. Some Brythonic troops were probably stationed in Armorica beforehand. Then the Brythons moved to it because there were already Brythons there, plus the raids.

Then there was another wave caused by the Anglo-Saxons.

And they didn't really migrate en masse, Welsh is Brythonic and Cornish was, there were plenty of them who stayed.

That would make sense.
 
Having thought it over, what scenario would be the most likely for a Celtic language to survive in this area in red?

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I was thinking here, because I know Dalmatian, the Romance language, survived in areas around here until just before the 20th century and there are still a couple thousand speakers of Istriot, another Romance language, in Istria.

Any ideas?
 
Not really. German culture and language originated outside of Celtic populated lands and Proto-Celtic and the Celtic languages are much more similar to Italic languages than Germanic languages. That's probably a reason why the Gaulish Celts were assimilated so quickly into Latin.



They retained aspects, but no culture is mostly Celtic in any European nation. That includes Scotland and Ireland now, I guess.
Read Peter Berresford Ellis' A brief History of the Celts
 
Read Peter Berresford Ellis' A brief History of the Celts

Well genetically they have a different variant of R1b not found amongst Celtic populations generally. Culturally they are a different people. How are Germanics Celtic then?
 
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