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Celts (The)

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or The Kelts. This family of nations includes the Irish. Erse, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Low Bretons. According to historic fable, Celtina was the daughter of Britannus. She had a son by Hercules, named Celtus, the progenitor of the Celts.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cedilla
Ceelict (St.)
Ceinture de la Reine
Celadon
Celadine
Celestial City (The)
Celestial Empire (The)
Celestians
Celia [heavenliness]
Celt
Celts (The)
Cemetery
Cenobites
Cenomanni
Cenotaphs
Censorius et Sapiens
Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Centaur
Cent-cyne
Cento
Central Sun

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