Trailing Celtic peoples on Euro Continent

[nick nolte]

I come from a long line of barroom heroes and we've been almost everywhere on the continent :D
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Celtic tribes lived in Lorraine before the Romans occupied the region. Divodurum, which will become Mettis, and later Metz, is one of the main towns of the Roman Gaul. After the invasion of the Huns, Franks and Alamanni tribes cohabit in Lorraine with Gallo-Romans. From this time, a language frontier which will survive until nowadays, splits Lorraine between Germanic people, who live mainly in the north of the region, and Gallo-Romanic people in the south.

http://www.robert-weinland.org/histo.php?lang=en

[Fredrik Haerne]

Interesting history link. There's a lot of "Celtic" music in French stores, at least in the north, and occasionally children are given Celtic names like Yann. France has lots of old languages, in Breton and Languedoc and so forth, but they begun to disappear rapidly at the latter half of the 20th century.

[Kind Lampshade Maker]

Interesting history link. There's a lot of "Celtic" music in French stores, at least in the north, and occasionally children are given Celtic names like Yann. France has lots of old languages, in Breton and Languedoc and so forth, but they begun to disappear rapidly at the latter half of the 20th century.
In Alsace-Lorraine, this is common. Patrick is another favorite name there