| The Druids and the Oes Dana | | | | classical Greeks and romans, is the only picture |
| Celtic Learning up to 1200 A.D. | | | | we have since continental Celtic learning did not |
| The earliest historical references to the Celts | | | | embrace the art of writing. However, with the |
| commonly describe a tribal society devoted to | | | | Chritianization of the insular Celts in Britain and |
| warfare and religion. It is a clearly defined society | | | | Ireland, we receive a written self-portrait of Celtic |
| which honours a warrior nobility as well as a | | | | society. It is the early Gaelic corpus of law, |
| learned class which commands authority through | | | | particularly, which tells us that Celtic learning was |
| its scientists, lawmakers and religious men, in | | | | still in the hands of a prestigious elite, the Oes |
| short, the Druids. This standard interpretation, only | | | | Dana. |
| acceptable from the external perspectives of the | | | | |