The Volcae, a Celtic tribe whose name means either ‘falcon’ or ‘wolf’, settled in Central Europe in the 5th century BC. Their German neighbours pronounced the first part of their name ‘walh’, and words with this stem were subsequently applied to anything that was considered foreign. Whether you were a Celt, or a Romanized Celt, or someone who …
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