|
|
|
500's CE - Rome Withdraws From Gaul
by Iain MacAnTsaoir
When Rome withdrew, many of the Gallo-Roman provinces declared their sovereingty and formed their own governments. According to the Greek chronicler Zosimus, the area called Amorica was one of these provinces.
While there may have been Brythonic tribes in Amorica, the fifth and sixth centuries saw several immigrations of these refugees to Amorica. This area was targeted first by British mercenaries and princelings who were taking advantage of the chaos that was rampant in the area. This chaos was a result of the withdrawal of Rome from the face of barbarian invasions. These immigrations were therefore not a matter of simply walking into deserted areas. To the contrary, the area was taken by force of arms, against Gallo-Romans in their own countries as well as Frankish invaders. Niether was the whole of what is now Brittany taken in one fell swoop. The first immigrations took the northern and then the western area of the Amorican penninsula. Later immigrations pushed into the southern parts. These immigrants are the people who introduced a dialect of Brythonic akin to Cornish into the area. As they took over the area from the Gallo-Romans they replaced the system of governance with a number of petty lordships. This area increased as the Bretons went against the Franks. Today, the area is called Brittany and the language is called Breton, and is spoken in four dialects.
Sources:
History of the World, J.M. Roberts,
Encyclopedia Brittanica Vol. 15
The Celtic Empire, Peter Berrisford Ellis, Carolina Acedemic Press, 1990, (c)1994,ISBN 0-89089-457-4
The World of the Celts, Simon James, Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1993, ISBN 0-500-0567-8
The Celts, People Who Came Out of the Darkness, Gerhard Herm, St. Martin's Press, (c)1977, ISBN 312-1205-7
The Celts, Jean Markale, Inner Traditions Intl. (c)1978, ISBN 0-89281-413-6
prepared by Iain MacAnTsaoir
|
|
Back to Top
'Clannada na Gadelica' is a registered trademark of the Clannada na Gadelica.
The following specific definitional phraseologies are Service Marked (SM) for the exclusive use of Clannada na Gadelica:
Gaelic Traditionalism, Gaelic Traditionalist, Diasporal Gaelic Traditionalism,
Diasporal Gaelic Traditionalist, Diasporan Gaelic Traditionalism, Diasporan
Gaelic Traditionalist, GT, Traditional Gaelic Polytheism, Gaelic Traditional
Polytheism, Gaelic Cultural Tradition, Gaelic Cultural Traditions, Hearthlands,
GCT
are ALL as of today Service Marked Clannada na Gadelica.
A service mark is "any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or
intended to be used, in commerce, to identify and distinguish the services of
one provider from services provided by others, and to indicate the source of the
services."
Since the early 1980s privately, and since 1993 publicly, Clannada na Gadelica,
and ONLY Clannada na Gadelica, have used this terminology, (and more terminology
which we are also Service Marking), as specific definitional phraseologies to
explicate and expound upon the Gaelic Cultural Traditions of the Gaelic
Hearthlands. Clannada na Gadelica have provided this original work and
original service exclusively, and can documentably prove we were are the originators of the modern re-employment in the Diaspora of this terminology. We specifically do NOT grant permission to use this terminology to any other entity or individuals.
I am Service Marking this work because Kathryn Price a.k.a Kathryn nic Dhana, and the Celtic
Reconstructionist identity thieves, and now other neo-pagans, as well as now a
Canadian on-line t-shirt company, have been poaching this terminology and trying
to crassly commercialize it.
Enough is enough. Clannada coined it and if it takes registering it as a
commercial service mark to protect it, then, so be it, and I'll take the
inevitable ass-whipping from the authentic Tradition Bearers in the Hearthlands
for it. When and if authentic cultural entities in the Hearthlands want to
assume the mark for themselves, I'll release it to them. Until then, this is the
line.
Kathleen O'Brien Blair, Taoiseach
Clannada na Gadelica,
A Confederation of Gaelic Traditionalists in the Hearthlands and Diaspora
|
|
|
