XPost: alt.religion.druid, alt.traditional.witchcraft, soc.culture.celtic
From: flink@btinternet.com
Allan has been reading too many comic books. There is a passage in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles about Anglian horsemen defeating the Picts, so look
it up if you are not too busy.
"allan connochie" wrote in message
news:416f3655@news.greennet.net...
>
> "Celtic University" wrote in message
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> >
> > "allan connochie" wrote in message
> > news:415d2249@news.greennet.net...
> > >
> > > "flink" wrote in message
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> > > >
> > > > "allan connochie" wrote in message
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> > > > >
> > > > > "Bogman" wrote in message
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> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Searles O'Dubhain" wrote in message
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> > > > > > > "flink" wrote in message
> > > > > > > news:chtave$6e6$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
> > > > > > > > Absolute crap. Celtic crosses were first manufactured at
> > Chester,
> > > > and
> > > > > > > are a
> > > > > > > > variant of XP, the Greek for Chi Rho, the first two letters
of
> > > > Christ.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > How was this information verified? Are you claiming Chester
as
> > the
> > > > > > > point of origin for all Celtic crosses?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Searles
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Verified by archeology old fruit! Chester, like Carlisle, was a
> > great
> > > > > > Romano-British and Christian city, both these two cities guarded
> the
> > > > > > corridor between Acotland and Wales, i.e. Strathclyde or
> Ystradclwyd
> > > and
> > > > > > Powys.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't think he's asking for evidence that Chester and Carlisle
> > > existed.
> > > > > He's asking for evidence that 'Celtic crosses were first
> manufactured
> > at
> > > > > Chester' which is what you claimed. If it is so and is verified
by
> > > > > archaeology then why don't you just give the references?
> > > > >
> > > > > Allan
> > > >
> > > > I once read it in a library book. The book was about archeology.
> > Chester
> > > > was once between Flintshire and Gobbinshire, which were both Welsh
> > > (Cymraeg)
> > > > speaking shires, and the masons of Chester used to carve these
crosses
> > > based
> > > > on XP, chi rho.
> > >
> > > Wow you once insisted that Bede's "Ecclesiastical History" was written
> in
> > > German; that the Anglian army was held up in Bamborough by Urien; that
> the
> > > kingdom of Northumbria never existed; etc etc. Your track record is
> > hardly
> > > good so why on earth would I believe you - just cos you once bought a
> > > library book?
> > >
> > >
> > > Allan
> >
> > The Anglian cavalry was in fact under seige at Dun Gwarai aka Bamburgh.
>
> There was no record of any Anglian cavalry at that time and the Anglian
> forces were not under siege at Bamburgh. They were more properly under
> siege on Lindisfarne. My point was that someone who claims they are from
> the north of England should know how to spell Bamburgh. There is no such
> place as Bamborough.
>
>
> > Bede's history was written in Latin.
>
> That was my point. Boggie, Flink, Celtic Warrior, or Celtic
> Uni...........whatever you're calling yourself today, claimed it was
written
> in German.
>
>
> Northumbria was a term invented by Bede
> > to describe North Britain,
>
> The point is not who was first to use the term for what was only a part of
> northern Britain! The point is that Boggie, Flink etc etc claimed that
the
> said kingdom did not exist at all.
>
>
> Allan
> Allan
>
>
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