That ancient belief has been shown to be true by DNA (that's a Wikipedia source which I may need to double-check).
@AlWest13 @edwestonline my point is just that there might be the tiniest of tiniest grains of truth in the myth. *really* old folk memory?
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@hbdchick@edwestonline Could be, but the account defo seems to be strongly influenced by post-Roman world, so impossible to tell. -
@AlWest13@edwestonline some early christian stuff slipped in there as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn#Origins … but, yeah, difficult to tell. -
@AlWest13@edwestonline i meant PRE-christian. (late here!)
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