Among the Celts of ancient Brittany there was a belief which still survives in the traditions of the Breton peasants and in the name of part of the Breton coast.

It is indeed, well known that the Celts in writing used the Greek alphabet, but they probably employed it only in the transactions of daily life; for we know that they were not allowed to commit their ancient songs to writing.

These attributes belong chiefly to the Literary Celt of latter-day conceptionthe Celt of Arnold and Renan, and other writers following in their wake, who have woven misty impressions of a people whom they have met as strangers, and never really understood.

The Celts Attacked in Their Own Land The victory was complete, and the Romans were firmly resolved to prevent the recurrence of such surprises by the complete subjugation of the Celts on the south of the Alps.

I, From Celt to Tudor; The Cambridge History of English Literature.

Compare the Saxon and the Celt with regard to the gladsomeness of life as shown in their literature.

The constant apprehensions on the part of the Celts as to such a Roman invasion were therefore sufficiently justified; but the Romans were in no haste.

But we do not love men the more because they chance to be our creditors; sometimes, indeed, we love them the less for it, and so these two hundred pounds did not prevent the Celt from breaking over the traces of the Englishman.

He himself was exceedingly anxious to do something that no one had previously equaled, and he expected to keep the Celts at a distance from the Gauls by invading the former's territory.

One may well ask what can have induced the stolid Kentish folk to follow so wild a Celt as this.

The name England is derived from Engle-land, or land of the Angles, a Teutonic people who, with kindred Saxons and Jutes, came over from the mainland in the 5th century, and took possession of the island, driving Britons and Celts before them.

They are supposed to have been Celts by race; and the period to which they are assigned falls between 300 B.C. and 100 A.D. Greinton, a small parish on the S.W. flank of the Poldens (nearest stat.