View source for Britons (Celtic people)

← Britons (Celtic people)

Jump to navigation
Jump to search

You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason:

Your IP address is in a range which has been blocked on all wikis.

The block was made by -revi (meta.wikimedia.org).
The reason given is Open proxy: Leaky webhost: Contact stewards if you're affected.

Start of block: 14:52, 20 April 2018

Expiration of block: 14:52, 20 April 2020

You can contact -revi to discuss the block.
You cannot use the "Email this user" feature unless a valid email address is specified in your account preferences and you have not been blocked from using it.
Your current IP address is 2a02:4780:bad:1:fced:1ff:fe01:300, and the blocked range is 2A02:4780:BAD:0:0:0:0:0/48.
Please include all above details in any queries you make.

You can view and copy the source of this page.

== Name ==<br/>[[Image:Britonia6hcentury.png|thumb|right|220px|center]]<br/>In about 330 BC, [[Pytheas]], a Greek explorer began a voyage in which he discovered the British Isles.<ref>Alasdair Macleod; Royal Geographical Society; Smithsonian Institution, ''Explorers: great tales of adventure and endurance'' (London; New York: DK in association with the Smithsonian Institution, 2010), p. 20</ref> In 326 BC he landed and gave the island the name Prettanike or Brettainiai.<ref>Peter Ackroyd, ''Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors'' (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2012), p. 19</ref> The name became Britain.<br/><br/>When the Romans conquered Britain in 43 AD, they called the people living there ''Brittanni'' (also spelled ''Britanni'').<ref name=Snyder67>Christopher A. Snyder, ''An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, A.D. 400-600'' (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998), p. 67</ref> They were also aware of their [[Tribe|tribal]] [[:en:wikt:identities|identities]]. In their [[:en:wikt:histories|histories]] the [[Roman Empire|Romans]] said of them "they are a people harassed by hosts,war bands; large multitudes. who receive political exiles, who rebel, and who are among the remote peoples of the world."<ref name=Snyder67/> [[Monks]] writing in the [[4th century|4th]] and [[5th century|5th]] centuries also called them ''Britanni''. Some used the term ''Britto''.<ref name=Snyder67/><br/><br/>The [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]] contains an account of the land and the people of Britain. ""The island of Britain is eight hundred miles long and two hundred miles broad: and here are in the island five peoples: [[Anglo-Saxons|English]], Brito-Welsh,Britons absorbed into the Welsh culture. [[Scottish people|Scottish]], [[:en:wikt:Pictish|Pictish]], and [[Clergy|Book-Latin]]."<ref>Benjamin Thorpe, ''The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle according to the Several Original Authorities: Translation'' (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1861), p. 5</ref><br/><br/>The Welsh scholar [[John Rhys]] first used the terms [[:en:wikt:Brythons|Brythons]] and [[:en:wikt:Brythonic|Brythonic]]. He wanted a more [[:wikt:specific|specific]] terms for the people of [[Wales]] and the Welsh of [[Cumbria]] and [[Cornwall]] than just the word Britons.<ref>John Rhys, ''Celtic Britain'' (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E.S. Gorham, 1908), p. 3</ref><br/>

Return to Britons (Celtic people)

Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britons_(Celtic_people)"

搜尋此網誌

Ttdfjt

View source for Britons (Celtic people) Navigation menu-revi-revi

View source for Britons (Celtic people)

Navigation menu

Personal tools

Namespaces

Variants

Views

More

Search

Getting around

Tools

In other languages