non-Celtic

There's still a debate about whether the Pictish language was a form of P-Celtic (Brittonic), Q-Celtic (Gaelic), non-Celtic, or something else (I have seen a theory suggesting it was related to Finnish), so it's tricky to define what counts as Pictish.

Brittonic names in ‘Anglo-Saxon’ genealogies, and vice versa Carla 2009

The arch-nationalism behind High Icelandic (which seeks to eliminate any connection between Icelandic and continental Scandinavian languages) denies another part of Iceland's history: that the first non-Celtic settlers in their country were (gods forbid!) immigrants from Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC. 2005

If the early Scots tongue came from some variant of Old English as is claimed by many, how are there no credible traces, especially in place names, of what must have been extensive settlements to have a major impact on the old Scots non-Celtic tongue.

languagehat.com: SCANDINAVIAN INFLUENCE ON SCOTS. 2005

To the east in Venetia lived the Veneti, and to the west in the Apennines lived the Ligurians, both non-Celtic peoples.

2. The Republic, 264-70 B.C.E 2001

Heligan is in the parish of St. Ewe, which is usually supposed to be a dedication to St. Eustachius; but non-Celtic saints are almost as much out of place in

The Cornwall Coast

Arthur as a subject for romantic treatment was a figment of some non-Celtic brain, Saxon or Norman, French or English, is not only gratuitous but excessively unreasonable.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

A face of feeling and of power; the face of a Celt, disciplined by the stress and conflict of a non-Celtic world.

The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885

It is all fery well for ta Sassenach (Saxon, i.e., non-Celtic) podies to read ta

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

According to another person with knowledge of the situation, Garnett sought advice from non-Celtic medical sources on remedies that could allow him to play through the end of this season.

SPORTSbyBROOKS 2009

My guess is that it would be truer to say that many pagan religions, Celtic, non-Celtic, pre-Celtic, or post-Celtic, had a 'pre-winter' festival at about this time, but that the Christian version really deserves to be recognised in its own right rather than as a mere co-option.

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008