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Let's get this rolling and start getting information out there for the public on the Celtic traditions and the Celtic people.

We have to get things rolling and I hope that we can get this site moving now.

Lord O' Toner

I have in my studies found where there were mentioned a bow that the Celtic people used. This bow had a draw of 150# and could travel over 300yards and kill and even go through plate armor. I have in my studies found a Hungarian bow with a draw of 110#. These are recurves and are very powerful bows.

I am soon going to purchase one of these bows but to fire it I also have to purchase a bone thumb ring for firing purposes.

I will let you know more about it when I get it.

The Mayfaire in Marshall, Michigan is gonna be on the last two weekends in May. Please, come and check out the festivities. We have Gypsies, fools, Ogres and knights. We also have wenches and blokes, pirates and Celts.

We have a Queen and a princess and sword fighters. We have Vikings and vendors. So please come out and have some fun.

Lord O' Toner.

Celtic warriors used a short willow leaf shaped blade. The short blade allows quick jabs and cuts while the opponent would take a long swing.

The short blade was also used by the Romans in the glatis the advantages in close. These blades were made out of iron and steel as opposed to the bronze swords of the Romans.

The Celtic women had all the same rights as men in the tribe.

In Celtic culture women were looked upon as the foundation of the Celtic people. They give birth and thus many of the Celtic gods or spirits were Goddesses. Their most popular was the water goddess.

Women were allowed to own land, own cattle, own slaves, work at skilled jobs, become Druids (Wicas), and even hold office as King (Queen).

They were even allowed to become warriors and fight in battles. ...

As hard for some to believe the Celtic people pratice equality among the sexes and women were allowed to be warriors along with the men. The greatest warrior woman was actually a King or Queen, she was the most fierce of all the Celtic people.

This was a great advantage for the Celts when they went to war against the Romans for the Roman army was not ready and was unsure about who to fight the women. For Roman women never went to war.

This was new for them and gave the ...

The Celtic people were farmers and gatherers and also fishermen. They had a Kingdom for cheifdom system of government where the king or cheif was elected yearly by the tribe.

Each tribe was family units of imediate family, cousins and even second cousins. They also praticed fostering, where the son would be sent to live in another tribe with a uncle or other male member. This helped make the tribe stronger when the son returned. It offered the tribe new skills and more expe ...

The Celtic people have been around from before 700BC. They came from the Central Asian Basin area and migrated either by overpopulation for from a flood. This migration ended with the Celtic people covering from the East into Western China toward the west to Ireland and from Scotland in the north to France and Italy in the south.

They left Italy and settled in the area known as Gaul which became Germany. This group covered a vast area in a short time. The first ...

Hello Ye all Celts,

I am Lord O Toner (Duane) my character is an Irish land owner from County Louth Ireland. I am also, a warrior.

I started this site to help poeple looking to develop Celtic caracters and who are just interested in the Celtic culture and lifestyle.

My present Renesiance festival is Mayfaire, in Marshall Michigan in the last two weeks of May.

I am part of a group hoping to start a living community in our Renfaire for the education of people about the ...

A friend of mine at the Clown Forum (I volunteer with the Red Cross) posted this in her "Old Words and Their Meanings" thread and it seemed to fit in our forum!

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Whoopubb: 'Obsolete form of hubbub, excitement, commotion, from the Gaelic ubub, an interjection of contempt or an Irish war cry, "Abu".