who is closer: Celts and Germanics or Slavs and Balts?

[♥ Lily ♥]

There is also a strong Celtic admixture in England, the Netherlands and Southern Germany.

That's true.

[FeederOfRavens]

There is also a strong Celtic admixture in England, the Netherlands and Southern Germany.

Not true for the Netherlands.

[Hevo]

That's true.

I don't know who invented the fairy tale that there is strong Celtic admixture in The Netherlands but that's not true at all. It's actually negligible.

[FeederOfRavens]

I don't know who invented the fairy tale that there is strong Celtic admixture in The Netherlands but that's not true at all. It's actually negligible.

People find Celtic Artifacts and assume Celts must of settled without taking in other factors like trade and war booty. They found Celtic artifacts in Jutland, the homeland of Germanic peoples. Does this mean Jutlanders are Celtic? No.

[Hevo]

People find Celtic Artifacts and assume Celts must of settled without taking in other factors like trade and war booty. They found Celtic artifacts in Jutland, the homeland of Germanic peoples. Does this mean Jutlanders are Celtic? No.

You are right. I would also like to add that The Netherlands was quite sparsely populated before the germanic migrations(some coastal areas were even deserted due floodings according to some Dutch archaeologists) and was heavily settled by Frisians/Saxons/Salian Franks and assimilated the germanic tribes like Cananefates/Batavians etc.

[FeederOfRavens]

You are right. I would also like to add that The Netherlands was quite sparsely populated before the germanic migrations(some coastal areas were even deserted due floodings according to some Dutch archaeologists) and was heavily settled by Frisians/Saxons/Salian Franks and assimilated the germanic tribes like Cananefates/Batavians etc.

Yes, the Frisii were nearly wiped out in the late roman era.

[Belenos]

Celts and Germans are pretty different in terms of physique, look, and psychological attitude. Germans are pretty disciplined/organized, physically fit, prosocial, and technological. German culture has a strong tendency to unity and internal logic. Really nobody else comes close, except maybe the Chinese.

Celts don't really excel in these qualities. The one area where Celts have left their mark is religion. Lots of monasteries even in Central Europe and Italy were built by Irish. That's the one gift of the Celts. The orderly austerity and ritual of German Catholicism has a Celtic stamp IMO.

Celts also have a gift for music (hardly unique) and some types of poetic imagination. It's more powerful when others shape it into more logically organized systems: like Tolkein, Heidegger (his aimless quasi-religious ramblings seem a bit Celtic IMO), the Grail and King Arthur literature, etc. Notice again there is an emotive-religious strain in all this.

Balts are a bit different from Slavs. Both tend towards the irrational from a Western point of view. Both are emotionally driven cultures. But the gap - physically and psychologically - seems smaller than the gulf between Celts and Germans.

What a bunch of stupid assertions !! You have read too much of old racist anthropology.

[Wanderer]

Slavs & Balts. We know the Baltic & Slavic languages share a relatively recent common origin. The (original) relationship between Celts & Germanics is not really certain.

[Chev Chelios]

Blats and Slavs

[Token]

Slavs and Balts, obviously.