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Celtic Studies class for Wednesday
Camulus is still surly, but not quite as openly hostile as he was yesterday. "Apparently for this upcoming Parents' Weekend, I am required to display some sort of . . . proof that you have actually learnt something. So you are going to create a . . . child-friendly version of one of the following stories. With pictures. They will be due next Friday.
The Children of Lir
The Wooing of Etain
The Dream of Oenghus
The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
Now, for the lesson.
Last class we were talking about the continental Celts, which are generally divided into early and late Iron Age groups, identified through their style of art. Halstatt-type Celts were during the early Iron Age, around 1000 BCE, and were the group that first emerged from the Swiss-Bohemian area, migrating west, south, and east. If you have any familiarilty with the dominant holy book of this place, they became the Galatians of St. Paul. They had a distinctive geometric/linear art which is the defining feature of the Halstatt Celts. They were also considerably less warlike than their descendents, the La Tene people. Halstatt burials tended to involve iron tools or farming implements, rather than the chariots and weaponry of the La Tene.
The La Tene people became a distinct group around 500 BCE, and was again defined by its art, which was much less restrained than Halstatt. It was very much the curvilinear art that the Celts brought down to modern times, curves and spirals and outgrowths of plants and animals. When the domination of the continental Celts began to decline in the face of the rising power of the Roman Empire, the La Tene people populated the British Isles. Because it was never conquered by the Romans, Vikings, Anglos, Saxons, Jutes, or Normans, Ireland retained the La Tene culture much longer than anywhere else in Western Europe.
I will be looking forward to your projects.
[[And I'm back. Midterms are complete. Laptop-not-working-scare over. I tried to find the best versions of the stories I could on short notice. Sorry for a bit of eye-bleeding format in one or two cases. Have fun!]]
The Children of Lir
The Wooing of Etain
The Dream of Oenghus
The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
Now, for the lesson.
Last class we were talking about the continental Celts, which are generally divided into early and late Iron Age groups, identified through their style of art. Halstatt-type Celts were during the early Iron Age, around 1000 BCE, and were the group that first emerged from the Swiss-Bohemian area, migrating west, south, and east. If you have any familiarilty with the dominant holy book of this place, they became the Galatians of St. Paul. They had a distinctive geometric/linear art which is the defining feature of the Halstatt Celts. They were also considerably less warlike than their descendents, the La Tene people. Halstatt burials tended to involve iron tools or farming implements, rather than the chariots and weaponry of the La Tene.
The La Tene people became a distinct group around 500 BCE, and was again defined by its art, which was much less restrained than Halstatt. It was very much the curvilinear art that the Celts brought down to modern times, curves and spirals and outgrowths of plants and animals. When the domination of the continental Celts began to decline in the face of the rising power of the Roman Empire, the La Tene people populated the British Isles. Because it was never conquered by the Romans, Vikings, Anglos, Saxons, Jutes, or Normans, Ireland retained the La Tene culture much longer than anywhere else in Western Europe.
I will be looking forward to your projects.
[[And I'm back. Midterms are complete. Laptop-not-working-scare over. I tried to find the best versions of the stories I could on short notice. Sorry for a bit of eye-bleeding format in one or two cases. Have fun!]]
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"You told us to look into continenetal Celtic site, but there don't seem to be too many extant sites. There's the megalith sites in Portugal, Brittany and near Munich. And the cairns that are built on ly lines in the German forests, but not much else."
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[ooc: "The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel" *shudders* Ooo, book of Irish legends, I say. That ought to be interesting, I say. 20 gnarly pages of "Who's in there?", *insert long flowery description*, "Who's that?", "x, he is totally a grody to the max ass and will hose lots of shoppers, let's not attack", "Shut up, bitch! Like, oh my gawd! Who else is totally in there?".
*kills whoever it was like, you know, that told her collective ancestors that they didn't need editing*]
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