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Kair

Kair — being in celtic tradition.

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Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attribution: I should be disposed to think the name based on some such an earlier form as Kair D6bgint, * the Fortress of the Danes/ who were called in old Welsh Dub-gint (^Annales Cambrug, a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

    "I should be disposed to think the name based on some such an earlier form as Kair D6bgint, * the Fortress of the Danes/ who were called in old Welsh Dub-gint (^Annales Cambrug, a. d. 866, in the CymmrodoTf ix. 165), that is to say * Gtntta Nigrm or Black Pagans,' and more simply Gint or Gynty * Gentgs or Heathens.'"