{"id":2581,"date":"2006-09-20T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2006-09-20T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T22:09:00","slug":"oisins-wodens-and-eshus-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/09\/20\/18\/09\/oisins-wodens-and-eshus-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Ois\u00c3\u00adns, W\u00c5\u008ddens, and Eshus, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team from Oxford University has discovered that the Celts, Britain’s indigenous people, are descended from a tribe of Iberian fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay 6,000 years ago. DNA analysis reveals they have an almost identical genetic “fingerprint” to the inhabitants of coastal regions of Spain, whose own ancestors migrated north between 4,000 and 5,000BC … The majority of people in the British<\/del> Hibernian<\/span> Isles are actually descended from the Spanish.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Irish mythology M\u00c3\u00adl Esp\u00c3\u00a1ine (Latin Miles Hispaniae, “Soldier of Hispania”; later pseudo-Latinised as Milesius) is the ancestor of the final inhabitants of Ireland, the “sons of M\u00c3\u00adl” or Milesians, who represent the Goidelic Celts. His given name was Golam or Galamh. He served as a soldier in Scythia and Egypt, before remembering a prophesy that his descendants would rule Ireland. He set off to the west, getting as far as Iberia (the Roman Hispania) where he fought several battles before dying, never seeing Ireland himself. His wife Scota and his uncle \u00c3\u008dth, who had spied Ireland from a tower, sailed to Ireland where \u00c3\u008dth was killed by the Tuatha D\u00c3\u00a9 Danann. When his body was brought back to Iberia, M\u00c3\u00adl’s eight sons and \u00c3\u008dth’s nine brothers invaded Ireland and defeated the Tuatha D\u00c3\u00a9 Danann.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team from Oxford University has discovered that the Celts, Britain’s indigenous people, are descended from a tribe of Iberian fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay 6,000 years ago. DNA analysis reveals they...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}