norseamd
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- Dec 13, 2013
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There must have been more than one, now I want to look it up. I've heard historians refer to an actual migration, but in Tom Cahill's excellent How The Irish Saved Civilization I recall him citing something about Prince Ith, a Celtic royal who went to Ireland and got himself killed over a woman, which instigated the Iberians coming up north en masse to even the score. That sounds more like an invasion than a migration to me!
They verified it by finding that the exact same species of snail lives in both Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula and were introduced to Ireland from the migrations whether intentionally or accidently. Look it up.
