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Goll mac Morna - warrior of the Fianna and uneasy ally of Fionn mac Cumhaill; Liath Luachra - Fionn's foster mother and a great warrior; Liath Luachra - tall, hideous warrior of the Fianna who shares his name with Fionn's foster mother; Oisín - son of Fionn mac Cumhaill, warrior of the Fianna and a great poet; Oscar - warrior son of Oisín and ...
The Celtic deities are known from a variety of sources such as written Celtic mythology, ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, religious objects, as well as place and personal names. Celtic deities can belong to two categories: general and local.
The very name, too, may derive from the Celtic root *kledo-, meaning "sword". The Romans described the spear of the Gauls with the word gaesum , a Latinisation of the Gaulish *gaisos . It is likely that two Latin words for chariot, carrus and covinnus , were adopted from Celtic languages, although the Romans at no point seem to have employed ...
Steve Blamires (Scotland, b. 1955), researcher and historian in the fields of neopaganism, Celtic spirituality and folklore; Isaac Bonewits (US, 1949-2010) Philip Carr-Gomm (British) Ossian D'Ambrosio (Italian, born 1970), musician, founder of the Cerchio Druidico Italiano; Robert Lee "Skip" Ellison (US) Jean Le Fustec Breton Grand Druid from ...
The Celtic god Sucellus. Though the Celtic world at its height covered much of western and central Europe, it was not politically unified, nor was there any substantial central source of cultural influence or homogeneity; as a result, there was a great deal of variation in local practices of Celtic religion (although certain motifs, for example, the god Lugh, appear to have diffused throughout ...
The Celtiberian presence remains on the map of Spain in hundreds of Celtic place-names. The archaeological recovery of Celtiberian culture commenced with the excavations of Numantia, published between 1914 and 1931. A Roman army auxiliary unit, the Cohors I Celtiberorum, is known from Britain, attested by 2nd century AD discharge diplomas. [16]
Brienne - This is a warrior French name meaning "from Brianne." 111. Calandra - Battle-ready Greek name meaning "lark" or "song of war." 112. Amina - 16th-century Nigerian queen and warrior who ...
Saint Patrick, woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. In Christianity, certain deceased Christians are recognized as saints, including some from Ireland.The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland, when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent.