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<blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 1597566" data-attributes="member: 5990"><p>Well, this kind of gets into the whole issue of what constitutes a culture and what's in a name. I really don't like to use that blanket term "Celtic" in this context since we really only know bits and scraps about the non-material culture in the period in which you can plausibly use the term "Celtic" to describe a more or less consistent culture. "Norse" is a whole different thing, since we have a substantial literature from them. When I say Classical/Medieval European, I mean it belongs to the general stock of knowledge of the Classical and Post-Classical culture in Europe, which originally would only include the area of the Roman Empire and the Hellenistic world, but after Christianization would ultimately (say by about 1000 AD) come to include almost all of what we now call Europe. In other words, the leucrotta belongs to the category of obsolete knowledge from our culture, like the unicorn.</p><p></p><p>Elementals are definitely not Norse though. The D&D conception of elementals is wholly modern AFAIK, but the concept of elemental spirits is Medieval European, tied up with alchemical theories. Like I don't think Paracelsus conceived of salamanders (fire elementals) as being big heaps of living flame or anything like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tarchon, post: 1597566, member: 5990"] Well, this kind of gets into the whole issue of what constitutes a culture and what's in a name. I really don't like to use that blanket term "Celtic" in this context since we really only know bits and scraps about the non-material culture in the period in which you can plausibly use the term "Celtic" to describe a more or less consistent culture. "Norse" is a whole different thing, since we have a substantial literature from them. When I say Classical/Medieval European, I mean it belongs to the general stock of knowledge of the Classical and Post-Classical culture in Europe, which originally would only include the area of the Roman Empire and the Hellenistic world, but after Christianization would ultimately (say by about 1000 AD) come to include almost all of what we now call Europe. In other words, the leucrotta belongs to the category of obsolete knowledge from our culture, like the unicorn. Elementals are definitely not Norse though. The D&D conception of elementals is wholly modern AFAIK, but the concept of elemental spirits is Medieval European, tied up with alchemical theories. Like I don't think Paracelsus conceived of salamanders (fire elementals) as being big heaps of living flame or anything like that. [/QUOTE]
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