To: zonder who wrote (59324 ) 11/29/2002 2:27:59 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to It was becoming generally accepted, even before DNA evidence was available, that the basques were likely to share roots with the brits who preceded the celts ... the basque tongue and the various dialects of gaelic tend to change over the years fairly rapidly and almost thoroughly, but linguistic clues remain, somewhere on the net there is a good page on this, and a number of publications available through sil.org .... a fellow in Arizona has summed up here what he's heard - geocities.com rootsworld.com ... there is now more than a little 'salsa celta' around, bagpipes violines and latino drums the principal instruments, with a little luck in the city of México you can catch it in the parques, the Alameda, the Zona Rosa, as well as concert halls ... doesn't really belong in the latter, as you cannot sit still and listen to much of it, but must dance or run away, the civilised version of the old choice 'fight or flight' memory.loc.gov ... the people of Galicia, where the big oil spill just happened, have much for celtic roots, they are just to the west of the basques .... Churchill in the first volume of History of the English-speaking Peoples lays out some of what was in 1939 known or suspected of these connections
