enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: traditional celtic warrior tattoos

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ancient Celtic warfare - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_warfare

    Replicas of Celtic warrior's garments. In the museum Kelten-Keller Rodheim-Bieber, Germany. Ancient Celtic warfare refers to the historical methods of warfare employed by various Celtic people and tribes from Classical antiquity through the Migration period. Unlike modern military systems, Celtic groups did not have a standardized regular military.

  3. History of tattooing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tattooing

    The traditional male tattoo in Samoa is called the pe'a. The traditional female tattoo is called the malu. The word tattoo is believed to have originated from the Samoan word tatau, coming from Proto-Oceanic *sau₃ referring to a wingbone from a flying fox used as an instrument for the tattooing process. [67]

  4. Mšecké Žehrovice Head - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mšecké_Žehrovice_Head

    It is one of the best known works of Celtic art from Iron Age Europe, and, along with the Glauberg "Prince" and the Warrior of Hirschlanden, one of the few large representations of the human figure. After its discovery in 1943, the sculpture became one of the most photographed, reproduced and published La Tène (cc. 450–50 B.C.) objects ever.

  5. Celtic art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_art

    Also covered by the term is the visual art of the Celtic Revival (on the whole more notable for literature) from the 18th century to the modern era, which began as a conscious effort by Modern Celts, mostly in the British Isles, to express self-identification and nationalism, and became popular well beyond the Celtic nations, and whose style is ...

  6. Celtic Revival - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Revival

    Sullivan's father was a traditional Irish musician and they both were step-dancers. In England, the Watts Mortuary Chapel (1896–98) in Surrey was a thoroughgoing attempt to decorate a Romanesque Revival chapel framework with lavish Celtic reliefs designed by Mary Fraser Tytler. Celtic-style tattoo

  7. Headhunting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headhunting

    The Celtic Gaels practiced headhunting a great deal longer. In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the demigod Cúchulainn beheads the three sons of Nechtan and mounting their heads on his chariot. This is believed to have been a traditional warrior, rather than religious, practice.

  8. Gaelic warfare - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_warfare

    Gallowglass later became a caste of warrior rather than a indicator of a norse gaelic origin, with Irish Gallowglass clans producing their own. Despite the increased usage of firearms in Irish warfare following the 16th century, Gallowglass remained an integral part of Hugh Ó Neill's forces during the Nine Years' War.

  9. Cernunnos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernunnos

    [12]: 106 [14]: 203 Le Roux concurred with Weisgerber; she associated proto-Celtic *kerno with the meaning "top of the head", and argued that Cernunnos's name should be interpreted as "the one who has the top of his head like a deer". [5]: 328–329 Vendryes suggested that the name was cognate with the Old Irish word cern ("hero").

  1. Ad

    related to: traditional celtic warrior tattoos