Paskal  | 24 Nov 2018 9:41 a.m. PST |
Hello everyone, The Attecotti were they Celts ? Paskal |
| Mike Target | 24 Nov 2018 10:28 a.m. PST |
If I remember my Tolkein right its a racial slur against spiders isnt it? |
| Paskal | 24 Nov 2018 10:34 a.m. PST |
It is an ancient people deemed hyper-savage. |
 Virtualscratchbuilder  | 24 Nov 2018 10:38 a.m. PST |
I don't think there is a definitive answer, but a lot of authors feel they were pre-Celt Irish. |
GildasFacit  | 24 Nov 2018 12:15 p.m. PST |
I don't expect that we will ever know the true nature of the Attecotti but my money is on them being some sort of warrior society rather than a separate people to the other tribes of north Britain. |
| 4DJones | 24 Nov 2018 12:34 p.m. PST |
Weren't they just a figment of the Roman imagination? |
| Bellbottom | 24 Nov 2018 2:42 p.m. PST |
I always thought they were Irish raiders, mostly troubling the Welsh coast. |
| kodiakblair | 24 Nov 2018 6:50 p.m. PST |
If they spoke a form of Celtic then they were Celts. |
| Paskal | 25 Nov 2018 6:02 a.m. PST |
They spoke a form of Celtic language ? |
| jhancock | 25 Nov 2018 9:56 a.m. PST |
"If…." Jerrovian means that Celts are a group defined by language, not by DNA. |
| Weddier | 25 Nov 2018 6:12 p.m. PST |
The Attecotti were indeed Celts, as their name in Welsh means "the family or band of battle", tuatha cad in Welsh. They were likely not a tribe per se but a group of mercenaries following a charismatic leader such as the earlier Gaesati who fought the Romans and the Galatians in origin. Similar groups show up in Irish and British mythology, the fianna and the Round Table. It's a long running pattern in Celtic history. We really don't know much about them except a reputation for ferocity. |
| Bellbottom | 25 Nov 2018 11:31 p.m. PST |
jhancock
You've mis-spelled my monika, and confused me with kodiakblair. |
| kodiakblair | 26 Nov 2018 9:06 a.m. PST |
JARROVIAN I can't see how the fella got confused. I stated the same fact as yourself, speak Celtic and that's you classed as Celtic. |
| GurKhan | 26 Nov 2018 9:32 a.m. PST |
The Attecotti were indeed Celts, as their name in Welsh means "the family or band of battle", tuatha cad in Welsh. Tuatha is Irish, surely, the equivalent of the Welsh teulu? See Philip Rance at link for a suggestion of Irish origin, Attacotti being a Latinisation of aithechthuatha. |
| Paskal | 27 Nov 2018 12:18 a.m. PST |
So they are scots (Celtic Gaelles)? |
| Bellbottom | 27 Nov 2018 6:44 a.m. PST |
kodiakblair
I didn't mention them speaking celtic. I said I thought they were Irish raiders who mainly predicated on the Welsh. |
| Paskal | 30 Nov 2018 12:32 a.m. PST |
If they were Irish raiders who mainly predicated on the Welsh, they spoke a Celtic language. |
| Paskal | 01 Dec 2018 12:12 a.m. PST |
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