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lies near at hand to surmise that the whole group of congeners
stands in some relation to the Celtic Tuatha De Danannx, the' Folk
°r Tribes of the goddess Danu2,' a curious title more suggestive of
rnen than gods3. In fact, it begins to look as though, far back in
the Middle Bronze Age, some proto-Celtic4 tribe or tribes had
traversed Europe along the great river-routes and appeared at places
as widely separated as Argos and Ireland5, nay more, that this
adventurous race, everywhere expansive and intrusive6, had pushed
°n to the very confines of Egypt. Nor is that a fantastic impossibility.
After all, if in the third century B.C. Celts could force their way into
the heart of Asia Minor and leave a permanent population in Galatia,
for aught we know, in the second millennium B.C. their ancestors

eute allgemein angenommen wird, der Name Dfanuvius] keltischen Ursprangs (Gliick
eltische Namen bei Caesar 92. Much Deutsche Stammsitze 63) und kam von den
j» ' die ja auf beiden Seiten des Stromes lange genug wohnten, zu den Romern.' Cp.
■ d'Arbois de Jubainville Les Celtes Paris 1904 p. 7 'le nom occidental et celtique
"uuios, mot qui semble proche parent de l'adjectif irlandais dana, ''intrepide, hardi,"
oj.nt derive aussi en Irlande un nom de la mere des dieux.' But the supposed connexion
^Snuvius with the Irish dana, ' brave,' is in the nature of a red-herring. Our latest
n't *'*y' Walde—Pokorny Vergl. Worterb. d. indogerm. Spr. i. 763, says: 'da- oder de-
Ussig, fliessen." Ai. da-na- n. "die beim Elefanten zur Brunstzeit aus den Schlafen
■ ende Flussigkeit," dd-nu- n.f. "jede traufelnde Flussigkeit, Tropfen, Tau" [supra
.'i 02], av dd-nu- f. "Fluss, Strom," osset. don " Wasser, Fluss"... .Hierher auch kelt.

a^uvius "Donau." Liden Arm. St. 73 f. m. Lit. M. Forster Zfslav Ph. i 1 ff.'
Pa • d'Arbois de Jubainville Le cycle mythologique irlandais et la mythologie celtique
Isla 1884 PP" I4°ff-> "°ff-> 253 ff-. 266 ff., C. Squire The Mythology of the British
in t"tI London, Glasgow and Dublin 1905 pp. 48, 71, 72, 77, 230, alii., J. A. MacCulloch
■Her stlnSs Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics Edinburgh 1910 iii. 282 bf., id. The
%f£°fthe Ancient Celts Edinburgh 1911 p. 63 ff., alii.

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P;cts " fe1uife op. cit. p. 230 'In the Tuatha De Danann are variously found Gaels,
SqUjj ff65' Scandinavians, Ligurians, and Finns.' But the prevailing view (d'Arbois,
qUestjo' acCulloch, etc.) is still that the Tuatha De Danann were gods, not men. The
bur;aj cannot here be discussed; but we should note their frequent association with

4 g^°Unt^s (f^) conceived as underground palaces.

'° say si 06 ^e'''c' 's a term of linguistic rather than racial significance, it might be safer
"1's trib'11^'^ ^ryan' or ' Indo-Europaean.' But I mean to imply that the descendants of
Sbert n Were of Celt'c speech. The Germans have coined Urkelten (E. Rademacher in
crt Heallcx. vi,

C- Squire op. cit. pp. 50 f., 252 f., J. A. MacCulloch in J. Hastings op. cit. iii. 285 b f.,
' Religion of the Ancient Celts pp. 63, 67 f., 103.

n'clu rl '. Vl' 282 'S'e konnen als Urkelten bezeichnet werden, als K[elten] noch
> ua ein wii "

"Pln<* Rasse')

alPinL d 6111 Wlcht'ger Bestandteil noch fehlt: die Vermischung mit Urnenfelderleuten

6 S- Muller ;

JUlctalJ0sit' Cr UrSeschichte Europas Strassburg 1905 p. 74 f. fig. 55 f. prints in impressive
Bronze.^'°n the secti°n and ground-plan of the 'Treasury of Atreus' with those of the

6 v- ''""ulus. of New Grange in County Meath, Ireland.
tlle Nordi " Childe The Ar)'ans London 1926 p. 200 'The victorious expansion of
2500 to 100 tUr>C' %vhatever its orig'n. is the dominant fact of European prehistory from