I think it should also be pointed out, at least for posterity, that Julius Caesar never referred to the Britons, Gauls, or Iberians as Celts. That term was pretty strictly reserved in his usage for one tribal group in Gaul, the Celtoi. It's been a long time since my European history classes in college, but I don't think old Vercingetorix managed to unite all of Gaul either. For some Gauls, it was clearly better to strike a deal with Rome and come out on the better end of things. Not unlike the Britons did later. It's also worth pointing out that quite a few modern historians are debating the early British and Irish histories were Celtic in origin. They don't disagree that there was migration between the Gaul and Britain, Iberia and Ireland, but they debate what impact these cultures had. They also debate whether or not these people were actually the Celts the Greeks were writing about in their early histories. As late as the twelfth century, the Byzantines were referring to the Franks as Celts. The largest deposit of Lateen artifacts is in Switzerland. Make of all this what you will, but it is a little strange that all of this pro-Celtic/Saxon lore that stormed the British Isles in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries coincided with potentially harmful threats appearing on Continental Europe, like the Holy League, The Crimean War, and the French Revolution. Robin Hood, Arthur, Alfred, all fighting the evil continental machine. Food for thought if nothing else. Stephen Scott