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SUMMARY
‘Celtic Languages and Peoples’
Keywords: onomastics, loan words, lexical borrowing
The present note discusses various Icelandic terms denoting the Celtic languages and
peoples of the British Isles. Notwithstanding the fact that a good many of the orig'
inal settlers of Iceland (c. 870-c. 930) hailed from Ireland and the Westem Isles of
Scotland, the terms Irland and írskr derive from OE Iraland and irisc. The same app'
lies to Skotland and skozkr from OE Scotland and scyttisc. There can be no doubt
that the four Icelandic words involved were borrowed from OE in pre-Viking times-
The same appears to be the case of Icelandic Bretland and brezkr from OE Bretaland
and brytisc. The term Pictland and Pictish do not occur in early Icelandic except u1
the compounds Péttlandsfjprðr ‘the Pentland Firth’, Pjattland, the name of an island