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Re: Forestmen and Wolfpack... thoughts
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:02:47 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Tony A. Rowe writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> > > No self-respecting Celt
> > > is going to strip down and cover himself in blue paint before battle. ;)
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> > The celts were stripping down to their bare shield back when they were
> > terrorizing early Rome. I forget whether they were into woad at that time, • but
> > I'll check my books when I get home. I think they were, but celts wander in
> > and out of so many places - Galatia, Greece, Italy, Briton, etc. - I tend to
> > confuse one era with another sometimes.
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> > Bruce
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> Heck, they even took over the city of Rome! However, that only lasted one • day.
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> Wait a minute... maybe that was the Visigoths.
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> Err... any history majors with a better memory than mine?
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> Tony
The Visigoths did a leisurely pillage of Rome over two weeks.
Bruce
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| (...) very (...) but (...) Heck, they even took over the city of Rome! However, that only lasted one day. Wait a minute... maybe that was the Visigoths. Err... any history majors with a better memory than mine? Tony (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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