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Title: Myths and legends ; the Celtic race
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920
Subjects: Celts Celts Celtic literature Legends, Celtic
Publisher: Boston : Nickerson
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Secondly, where were the Germanicpeoples, and what was their position in regard to theCelts ? * Roman history tells of various conflicts with the Celts duringthis period, but de Jubainville has shown that these narratives arealmost entirely mythical. See Premiers Habitants, ii. 318-323.26
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We are bound for Rome 26 CELTIC PLACE^NAMES IN EUROPE Celtic Place-names in Europe To answer these questions fully would take us (forthe purposes of this volume) too deeply into philo-logical discussions, which only the Celtic scholar canfully appreciate. The evidence will be found fully setforth in de Jubainvilles work, already frequently re-ferred to. The study of European place-names formsthe basis of the argument. Take the Celtic name Novio-maguSy composed of two Celtic words, the adjectivemeaning new, and magos (Irish magH) a field or plain.-^There were nine places of this name known in antiquity.Six were in France, among them the places now calledNoyon, in Oise, Nijon, in Vosges, Nyons, in Dr6me.Three outside of France were Nimegue, in Belgium,Neumagen, in the Rhineland, and one at Speyer, in thePalatinate. The word dunum^ so often traceable in Gaelic place-names in the present day (Dundalk, Dunrobin, &c.),and meaning fortress or castle, is another typicallyCeltic element in

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