Re: Celtic Origins



JMB wrote:
>
> "Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1ajnt1hg620plq5pdglc2fkoinr77blbmo@xxxxxxxxxx
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:46:59 -0000, "JMB"
> > <johnmbyrne(remove)@mysmart.ie> wrote:

[..]

> > At this point I can hear poor Bernard spluttering. :-)
> >
> > You were the person who introduced the subject of Swedes. Now you are
> > the person waxing indignant about the mention of Sweden by Bernard.
>
> He is the idiot that started claiming that because there was no country
> called Sweden during the time in question, I cannot use the term Swede to
> refer to the ancestors of the people who currently live in the modern
> country called Sweden. So tell me Eric, what came first? Sweden, or
> Swedes?

Obviously a root crop has nothing to do with "Sweden" -other than it
is grown there too, and the root crop would remain the same name
irrespective of the nation in which it was grown (except in the USA
were it also has a different name)!

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