35. The Romans may have conquered the Celts. But the Celtic legacy is preserved today
The ancient Celts may be gone, but they are not forgotten, and their legacy survives to this day in many European languages and place names. Two-thirds of England’s rivers have Celtic names, such as the rivers Avon, Severn, Derwent and Trent. So too do many of their continental counterparts such as Germany’s River Neckar which derives from the Celtic for wild water. Celtic languages also still survive such as Welsh, Breton, Cornish, Gaelic and Irish.
Where Do we get this stuff? Here are our sources:
The Celts, Frank Delaney, Harper Collins, 1993
Celtic Britain, Lloyd Laing, Paladin, 1979
Who’s Who in the Roman World, John Hazel, Routledge, 2002
Herodotus: The Histories, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt, The Folio Society, 2007.
Why does Britain Have Such Bizzare Place names? James Harbeck, BBC Culture
Urnfield Culture, The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica.com, March 1, 2016
Cimmerian People, The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica.com, July 20, 1998
Cimmerians, Sergei R. Tokhtas’ev, Encyclopædia Iranica, V/6, pp. 563-567, December 30 2012.
Vercingetorix, The Editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica.com, August 17, 2017
Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, Victoria Simmons, John T Koch (ed)
The Geography, Strabo, LacusCurtius
The Library of History, Diodorus Siculus, Loeb Classical Library, 1939
Roman History Vol IX, Cassius Dio, Loeb Classical Library, 1927
The Gallic Wars/The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar, Penguin Classics, 1982