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What is a Celtic Woman?

I am a Celtic Woman of Irish Scott descent. Discover a little bit about what it means to be a Celtic Women, what are the characteristics and who do you know that is a Celtic Woman?.

Celtic is pronounced like Kel-tic

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What is "Celtic"?

It is important to briefly note that the term "Celtic" refers to a diverse body of languages and a varied group of people. The Celtic language includes Irish, Manx, Scots-Gaelic, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Further, the term "Celtic" has only be en in use since the 18th century classicists coined it. It was they who "lumped together" the Celts as "noble savages" and circulated the modern stereotypes persistent to this day.

Mists of Avalon

Even readers who don't normally enjoy Arthurian legends will love this version, a retelling from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Morgaine (more commonly known as Morgan Le Fay) and Gwenhwyfar (a Welsh spelling of Guinevere) struggle for power, using Arthur as a way to score points and promote their respective worldviews. The Mists of Avalon's Camelot politics and intrigue take place at a time when Christianity is taking over the island-nation of Britain; Christianity vs. Faery, and God vs. Goddess are dominant themes.

Young and old alike will enjoy this magical Arthurian reinvention by science fiction and fantasy veteran Marion Zimmer Bradley. --Bonnie Bouman
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Contemporary communities throughout Northern Europe as well as the Anglosphere celebrate the traditional holiday as a cultural festival. Modern Yule traditions include decorating a fir or spruce tree, burning a Yule log, hanging mistletoe and holly branches, giving gifts, and general celebration and merriment.

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The Genetic Code

The genetic code for the physical appearance of Celtic women has remained greatly unchanged throughout time, and can be readily identified by a number of similar features of modern women of Celtic descent, proving that the lineage remains unbroken to this day.

The Celtic lineage is one of the oldest in the world, yet few people of this bloodline are to be found in modern times.

In fact, it almost becomes a challenge to locate a person of pure Celtic origin. Through research and observation, Dale Dassel has managed to pinpoint certain physical characteristics that are indicators of a person of Celtic lineage. In his comparative study, he describes and demonstrates the features that are predominant to women of Celtic descent.

The Celtic woman of ancient and modern times share many of the same physical features, the two most distinctive being red hair and extremely pale skin (another sign, though not always present, are freckles). But there are additional signs of Celtic ancestry that have been carried in the blood through the millennia since the Gauls and Celts ruled Europe thousands of years ago. In women of pure, unbroken Celtic lineage, we see strikingly similar, beautiful facial features.

The shape of the nose and the high forehead, in combination with each other, are probably the two most prominent symbols of Celtic lineage outside of having red hair and pale skin.

pale skin possibly with freckles
fiery red hair which pulls away from the head and flows back
the distinctive, delicately pointed, prominent nose
high forehead
firm jaw
thin arching eyebrows

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Celtic Women: Dassel writes "These traits can be used to identify women of pure Celtic blood, who are the most perfect, beautiful and ethereal women ever created on the face of the earth."

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Irish Colleen

or Celtic (sometimes Keltic) woman

A print of a spectacular 1890s photochrom (sometimes spelled photochrome) of a beautiful Irish Colleen, or Celtic (sometimes Keltic) woman dressed in the traditional clothing of the era. As was the tradition in Ireland, she is wearing a traditional Irish woolen cloak, frequently known as a brat, pulled over a patterned scarf that is pinned near her breast. The laced cuffs of her sleeve show an elegant dark lace. A white apron completes her costume. She clutches a rosary in her hands. This is a magnificent piece of work and preserves the life and dress of the Irish people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Anyone of Irish or Celtic (Keltic) descent or a lover of things Irish will find this a beautiful addition to their collection.
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What We Know About the Celts

No literature survives from ancient Gaul and records of the people are fragmentary. Carolyn Larrington in her book, The Feminist Companion to Mythology says,

"We do not know the Celts but only the Gauls, Irish, Welsh, and Bretons...archeological evidence (of the Celts) is related to the continental Celts, vernacular literature to the insular Celts, thus the two cannot validate each other without the risk of circularity, but they can tell us about their myth and beliefs" (121).

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What is a Celtic Woman?

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

My Top Lenses

What is "Celtic"?

Mists of Avalon

Celtic Women Resources

Custom Greeting Cards

Featured Celtic Lenses

The Genetic Code

A Few Maureen O'Hara Classic Films

Irish Colleen

or Celtic (sometimes Keltic) woman

Celtic Mandala: Earth Mysteries & Mythology

Celtic Calendar 2010

Celtic Women on Video

Celtic Women Stuff on CafePress

What We Know About the Celts

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