From Gauls to Vikings

[urbanspaceman]

Continuing with the supplementary material at the end of my book, I decided to add these notes, left lingering after the event:
THE HIDDEN ONE
Source of 'Billet Welding' in Western Europe (C.500bCe -first encountered).
Actually, the Celtiberians were using these techniques in 500bCe, so the probability is that it actually pre-dated this time.
Celebrated linguist Kim McCone – focusing on the Celts – notes that the title Celt- is found in the names of several ancient Gauls such as Celtillus: father of Vercingetorix. He suggests it meant the people or descendants of "the hidden one", noting that according to Julius Caesar's Bellum Gallicum (Gallic War), the Gauls claimed descent from an underworld god.
Bearded ladies anyone?