EN067.09 Kelta
Ott 2025
L. Era of Minerva
1. At Walhallagara
Kelta and the Gola
67.09 Kelta, who was rumored to walk as easily on water as on land, went to the mainland and onward to Massalia. Then came the Gola with their ships, sailing from the Middle Sea to Kaedik and all of our outer lands. Next, they overran Britannia, but they could not get a good foothold there because the stewards had authority and the banished men were still Fryas.
But now Kelta came, and declared: “You were free-born, but for minor flaws they made you outcasts; not to better you, but to obtain tin through your hands. If you wish to be free again, and live under my counsel and care, then march forth! Weapons you shall have, and I shall watch over you.” This went like lightning over the lands and, before the Bearer’s Yule had completed one circuit, she was mistress over all of them and of the Tyrians, from all our southern territories up to the Seine.
Because Kelta did not feel secure enough, she ordered a burg to be built in the northern hill country, [068] which was named Kelta’s Burg. (It still exists, but now it is known as Kearenek.[1]) From this burg she ruled like a legitimate mother — not for, but over her followers, who thenceforth named themselves Kelts.
Meanwhile, however, the Gola gradually took control over all of Britannia: firstly, because she had no other burgs; secondly, because she had no burgmaids and thirdly, because she had no proper Lamp. As a result of all this, her folk could not learn. They became dull and listless, were eventually robbed of all their iron weapons by the Gola and, in the end, were led about like a bull by the nose.
Notes
- ↑ ‘Kearenek’ (KÉREN.ÀK) — name seems to suggest Carnac (Breton: Karnag) in northwestern France (Brittany).
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Chapter L: Sandbach 1876