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Gaelic warfare. Irish gallowglass and kern. Drawing by Albrecht Dürer, 1521. Gaelic warfare was the type of warfare practiced by the Gaelic peoples (the Irish, Scottish, and Manx ), in the pre-modern period. Part of a series on. War.
The historical institution of the fían is known from references in early medieval Irish law tracts. A fían (plural fíana or fianna ) was a small band of roving hunter-warriors. [ 2 ] It was made up of landless young men of free birth, often young aristocrats , [ 3 ] "who had left fosterage but had not yet inherited the property needed to ...
A Medieval Hebridean warrior. The Irish language gallóglach is derived from gall "foreign" and óglach; from Old Irish oac (meaning "youth") and Old Irish lóeg (meaning "calf" but later becoming a word for a "hero"). The Old Irish language plural gallóglaigh is literally "foreign young warriors".(The modern Irish plural is galloglagh.)
Cú Chulainn ( / kuːˈkʌlɪn / koo-KUL-in[ 1][ 2] Irish: [kuːˈxʊlˠɪn̠ʲ] ⓘ ), is an Irish warrior hero and demigod in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore. [ 3] He is believed to be an incarnation of the Irish god Lugh, who is also his father. [ 4][ 5][ 6] His mother is the mortal Deichtine ...
Gann and Genann - joint High Kings of Ireland. Rinnal - High King of Ireland and the first king to use spearheads. Rudraige mac Dela - second High King of Ireland. Sengann mac Dela - High King of Ireland. Sláine mac Dela - first High King of Ireland. Sreng - champion of the Fir Bolg who cut off Nuada's arm.
The word kern is an anglicisation of the Middle Irish word ceithern [ˈkʲeθʲern] or ceithrenn meaning a collection of persons, particularly fighting men. An individual member is a ceithernach. [1] The word may derive from a conjectural proto-Celtic word * ketern ā, ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning a chain. [2]
The legendary werewolves of Ossory, a kingdom of early medieval Ireland, are the subject of a number of accounts in medieval Irish, English and Norse works. The werewolves were said to have been the descendants of a legendary figure named Laignech Fáelad whose line gave rise to the kings of Ossory. The legends may have derived from the ...
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. Instead, their organization varied depending on clan groupings and social class within ...