Early Brittany
Léon Fleuriot|Pierre Giot
Who are the Bretons and where do they come from? This is a question with not only historical ethnological implications, but even political ones which sometimes tend to cloud landscape. Professor Léon Fleuriot teaches Celtic i n second University at Rennes (Université de Haute-Bretagne) . He specialist in Old Breton ( Le vieux : éléments d'une grammaire , Paris, 1964; Dictionnaire des gloses en 1964), language barely known from glosses Latin manuscripts scriptoria of oldest monasteries, place-names surnames cartularies these monasteries. has made him more interested still history culture people speaking Breton, he revised all evidence about them. Part I this article version introduction large work on subject yet published. Dr P.-R. Giot, Brittany, well readers Antiquity head Laboratoire d'Anthropologie–Prehistoire–Protohistoire et Quaternuire Armoricains first Rennes) From study dry bones old inhabitants country got involved their archaeology.
Antiquity