Pido disculpas a los seguidores del blog por la larga ausencia pero he estado estudiando un máster que me ha impedido centrarme en otros asuntos. Como este año tengo que trabajar mi inglés, intentaré escribir artículos con frecuencia.
En realidad, más allá de la mitología, mucho antes ya habían llegado ibéricos a las islas británicas. La cultura del vaso campaniforme (originaria de Portugal y la Baja Andalucía) se había asentado en el archipiélago a mediados del tercer milenio a.C., abriendo al mercado internacional las ricas minas de estaño de Cornualles y Devon.
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I apologise to the followers of this blog because of my considerable absence but I've been studying a MBA that has made me impossible to focus on other issues. Since this year I have to work a lot in my English, I'll try to write posts more frequently.
The Arthurian Cycle of the Matter of Britain affirms that Ireland was settled by Basque people. The Welsh clergyman Geoffrey of Monmouth claims in his 'Historia Regum Britanniae', a mythic chronicle of the dynastic evolution of these lands, that the Briton king Gurguit Barbtruc found, barely 278 after the Universal Flood (in other words, 642 b.C.), in the Orkney islands, a fleet of 30 ships lead ran by a chieftain named Partoloim (also named Irelamal). They were community of Basclenses. They had been thrown out from Hispania and were looking for a place to live. This monarch ordered to let the, live in Hibernia, then an abandoned island, according to the story. The English philology professor Julio César Santoyo argues that the text refers to Basque sailors, whose leader would have named the island of Ireland. The chronicler Gerald of Wales also mentioned the Hibernian in his Topographia Hiberniae as people who used short spears and two types of darts, imitating the Basque style. Probably, this tale is a variation of the legend mentioned in the Irish literary cycle Lebor Gabála Érenn with regard to Brigantia and the son of Ith, already narrated in this blog.
In fact, beyond the mythology, long before the Iberian people had already arrived to the British Islands. The Bell-Beaker culture (original from Portugal and Southern Andalusia) had settled in the archipelago in the middle of the third millenium b.C, opening the wealth Cornwall and Devon stain mines to the international market.
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