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Old 05-22-2010, 10:57 PM   #4
Aiwendil
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To me they seem more English (Anglo-Saxon) than British or Scandinavian. Obviously, part of that has to do with their language being represented by Old English. But the choice of Old English was surely not arbitrary; I'd say it reflects something about their society and their outlook that resembles that of the Anglo-Saxons.

I don't see anything particularly Celtic or Scandinavian about them, but maybe that's just me. The emphasis their culture places on horses certainly does set them apart from the Anglo-Saxons, but I don't know that I'd call it particularly Celtic; a lot of peoples used horses, after all.
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