>>Could there have been a less clear separation between Spanish and Portuguese back then? Was there greater use of dialects that were somewhere in between, such as Galician?
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>>I looked at a Galician dictionary in a bookstore and couldn't decide how different it looked from Spanish or Portuguese, especially since I don't know either. To me the spelling of the words looked more like Spanish, which makes sense since Galicia is in Spain.
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>Bret;
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>Historically, Galicia in northern Spain, is the land from which Celtic Tribes migrated to Ireland. So the Irish are really Spanish! Bagpipes are still used today in Glacian Folk music. If you want to upset a Scot, tell him he is Irish – he is. The Scots are one of the five Irish tribes.
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>Tom

I gather that people in Galicia retain the Celtic cultural influence, especially in their folk music, but not in their language.