Greek is the language, Hellenic is the cultural group... I think.
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Hellenic language, Greek is the dialect
Viking Ship buried beneath a pub on the Wirral
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Hellenic language, Greek is the dialect
You mean Keltoi is Hellenic, surely
This could be a long thread.
Where did the name "Viking" come from?
...to drag things kicking and screaming back on topic
Is that what they called themselves or what someone else called them when they wrote up the history books?
Oh no.... That's another one no one can agree on...........
If my Classics A Level still serves me well after all these years the ancient Greeks called their common cultural entity - ie anybody who spoke Greek, observed the rites and rituals of the Olympian gods etc as "Hellas". Everybody else was a barbarian - which meant that they spoke a language the Greeks couldn't understand, in their snooty way they thought everybody else was gibbering "bar bar bar".
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If I remember right Keltoi was the term that Stabo (the Greek Geographer) used to describe the peoples that he first encountered in what is now Switzerland. The Romans then picked up the term and ran with it, and then came the Victorians. Need we say more. As for Vikings, there are settlements all around the coast line of Britain and Ireland that draw their name from the vikings. Dublin (Dubh lin) means Black Pool. A name that indicated a deep harbour. roughly you can separate norse influence on Britain and Europe this way. Swedish (using the nationalities loosely) vikings travelled east into northern Europe establishing what would become Russia. Norwegians travelled west and were resposible, with the help of the Dane, for the settlements down the west coast and the Scottish Islands, Man and Ireland. The Dane were more responsible for the impact on the east coast of britain and western Europe, examples being the Danegeld in east anglia and Normandy (Normandby or land of the Northmen).
These are just general ramblings and in no way are meant to be scientifically accurate, just a generalisation as I see it.
And the vikings didn't wear horned helmets, that was the Gauls. Again the Victorians.
These are just general ramblings and in no way are meant to be scientifically accurate, just a generalisation as I see it.
And the vikings didn't wear horned helmets, that was the Gauls. Again the Victorians.
