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The Romans were truly frightened of the populations they had met in Britannia and Gallia and their fear lead them to building the Hadrian's Wall to keep them divided from the Picts and the Scots.
They wrote many stories about that populations that looked so different from the disciplined Roman armies thus giving us the idea that the Keltoi were some sort of blood thirsty monsters. On the other hands, the Romans used to write frightening accounts on everything they did not understand and as they conquered the known world, their stories were deemed real.
Have you been in Genova, Eleana?
Wild, isn't that possible that it's just the century old melting pot that is Europe that has produced this unusual mix between Irish and Hebrews? I mean that every European has, in the end, signs of different genetic origins. I've read somewhere that everybody having B type blood is connected to the Middle East, for instance.
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