Goidels
It might be further suggested that the Goidels themselves had in the first instance adopted him from the pre-Celtic natives, but in that case a goddess would have been rather more probable ^
It might be further suggested that the Goidels themselves had in the first instance adopted him from the pre-Celtic natives, but in that case a goddess would have been rather more probable ^ (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)
In other words, the Goidels of this country had stories current among them to explain the names of the places with which they were familiar; and it is known that was the case with the Goidels of Irela (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)
This last vocable appears in Irish as the name of several saints, but previously it was probably that of some pagan god of the Goidels, and its meanin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)
It comes to this, then: we cannot say for certain whose creation Br^n, for instance, should be considered to have been — that of Goidels or of non- Aryan natives (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attestation: It might be further suggested that the Goidels themselves had in the first instance adopted him from the pre-Celtic natives, but in that case a goddess would have been rather more probable ^ (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter VII: Triumphs of the Water-world)
"It might be further suggested that the Goidels themselves had in the first instance adopted him from the pre-Celtic natives, but in that case a goddess would have been rather more probable ^."
- attestation: In other words, the Goidels of this country had stories current among them to explain the names of the places with which they were familiar; and it is known that was the case with the Goidels of Irela (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)
"In other words, the Goidels of this country had stories current among them to explain the names of the places with which they were familiar; and it is known that was the case with the Goidels of Ireland."
- attestation: This last vocable appears in Irish as the name of several saints, but previously it was probably that of some pagan god of the Goidels, and its meanin (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)
"This last vocable appears in Irish as the name of several saints, but previously it was probably that of some pagan god of the Goidels, and its meaning was most likely the same as that of the Irish participial mochta, which Stokes explains as ' magnified, glorified ': see his CaktiHar of Oengus, p. ccxiv, and compare the name Mael-mochla."
- attestation: It comes to this, then: we cannot say for certain whose creation Br^n, for instance, should be considered to have been — that of Goidels or of non- Aryan natives (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter IX: Place-name Stories)
"It comes to this, then: we cannot say for certain whose creation Br^n, for instance, should be considered to have been — that of Goidels or of non- Aryan natives."
- attribution: The name, however, of the leader of the Goidels arrayed against Cadwatlon may be regarded as unknown, and Serrigi as a later name, probably of Norse origin, introduced from an account of a tenth centu (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter X: Difficulties of the Folklorist)
"The name, however, of the leader of the Goidels arrayed against Cadwatlon may be regarded as unknown, and Serrigi as a later name, probably of Norse origin, introduced from an account of a tenth century struggle with invaders from the Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin*."