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Not until the time of his grandsons and great-grandsons was the name O'Brien used as a surname, used to denote descent from an illustrious ancestor. It has for some three hundred years been written as O ', but in recent years the apostrophe is often dropped, bringing it into line with early medieval forms. The apostrophe came into existence as ...
Pendragon, or Pen Draig (Middle Welsh: pen[n] dreic, pen[n] dragon; composed of Welsh pen, 'head, chief, top' and draig / dragon, 'dragon; warrior'; borrowed from the Greco-Latin word dracō, plural dracōnēs, 'dragon[s]', Breton: Penn Aerouant) literally means 'chief dragon' or 'head dragon', but in a figurative sense: 'chief leader', 'chief of warriors', 'commander-in-chief', generalissimo ...
She is a legendary Scottish warrior woman and martial arts teacher who trains the legendary Ulster hero Cú Chulainn in the arts of combat. Texts describe her homeland as Scotland ( Alpeach ); she is especially associated with the Isle of Skye , where her residence Dún Scáith ("Fortress of Shadows") stands.
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Segurant, the Knight of the Dragon, late 13th century. Prophecies of Merlin: Knight of the Isle of Not-Knowing, son of Hector the Brown, Dragon slayer, Segwarides† Le Morte d'Arthur, Prose Tristan: Son of Esclabor, brother of Safir and Palamedes: Taliesin: Historical figure The Welsh Triads, Story of Taliesin, Alfred, Idylls of the King
Holden - English name meaning "from the deep valley," with warrior-like overtones. 69. Ignatius - This Latin name means "fiery one" or "of fire," evoking passion and strength.
The term Shield-maiden is a calque of the Old Norse: skjaldmær.Since Old Norse has no word that directly translates to warrior, but rather drengr, rekkr and seggr can all refer to male warrior and bragnar can mean warriors, it is problematic to say that the term meant female warrior to Old Norse speakers.
Many tales of dragons, ending with the dragon-slayer marrying a princess, do not precisely fit this cliché because the princess is in no more danger than the rest of the threatened kingdom. An unusual variant occurs in Child ballad 34, Kemp Owyne , where the dragon is the maiden; the hero, based on Ywain from Arthurian legend, rescues her from ...