Pomeranians Aren't All Dogs

It seems some of my ancestors might have come to the United States from Prussia. Some of Prussia, it seems, was once Pomerania; so am I not part Pomeranian?


I've been trying to gather some understanding of the background of the Prussian people. Some people say that a Prussia people never existed.
Still there is evidence of people on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, at least, as far back as 15,000 BCE.


Here are some Prussian background notes I have begun to gather.
Kashubians(Cassubians)were Lechtic language speakers on the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers. The Cassubian language may have come from Pomerania. I read that Pomeranian is a Lechtic language which is a west Slavic language which has been called Old Prussian.
I'm not very sure of any of this yet. Still, when, as a child, I thought I heard someone calling me a slob, perhaps they were in truth calling me a Slav.


I think that some of my ancestors were in Ireland before the arrival of any Celts, but they stayed long enough to pick up some Celtic genes. And not all the Celts headed to Ireland got there by way of the Iberian Peninsula. Some of those Celts got there via the Baltic.
I also have some Norwegian ancestors who may have sailed the Vistula and Oder on their way to Byzantium.


It's an interesting area. Before the arrival of Christianity, there may have been Norsemen selling Pomerania amber to Romans.


Pomeranians are cute.


Not everyone would call Prussians cute, but they seem attractive enough to me so that I expect to bring more notes about them to these pages.

One Quarter Irish

My mother was probably Scott and Prussian; my father Irish and Norwegian. My father told me that that his father told him, "Remember son, all Irishmen are wits, and you are half Irish.

Given my background you may have the kindness to forgive how I begin this bit of story. I begin with a pure heart and a tear in my eye.

Holy places and powers be.

We descend from bards and heroes and there once 

was an age of gold.

Remember.

Let your memory be deep and fine.

No need to remember to sharply the giants, the fire, and the advancing sea.

Better to remember proper names older than the Dagda.

Just rememberer the times before the Tuath De Danann and let your imagination  be stirred.

Trust your memories enough, for there are finer things there.

Be ready to embrace the truth.

Remember a short time ago, just before Norsemen came to North America. You may remember that a few men who came places we know call Wales, Scotland, and Ireland came moving down the hills of Kentucky. 

Some will feel a memory.

Then back to the good times before the bright gods of Asgard. Yes, even then your ass was guarded

Study of pre-Christian Northern and Western Europe has often been based in in the medieval literature of Iceland and Ireland. Still, there are things to be learned from the earlier Romans and Greeks. From the Greeks there are hints of iron bearing Celt coming west perhaps before the age of bronze. They were clearer about iron bearing 'Celt' coming later to end the ag of bronze. Some may have called those later Celt, Galatians.