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(KEE an moc kiin't) Father of Lugh. When he encountered the sons of Tuirenn - Brian, Iuchar and Iucharba - his enemies approaching, he turned himself into a pig. Brian noticed that it was a magical beast and turned himself and his brothers into hounds and gave chase to it. They eventually resumed their own forms, but refused Cian quarter, stoning him to death. They attempted to bury him six times, but only managed to cover him with a mound on the seventh attempt. Lugh found his father's body with the help of the men of the Sidhe, and vowed vengeance on his killers. Later legend saw him as an evil druid who enjoyed changing his pupils into hares, while he followed as a hound. The children of Tuirenn struck him with his own staff and turned him into a boar, whence the earthwork dividing North and South Ireland is called the Blavk Pig's Dyke, after his tremendous career from coast to coast. This legend corresponds to that of TWRCH TRWYTH.
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(cer'i yi loo'ah ra) A hilly district between co. Limerick and co. Kerry.
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Wife of Pryderi, daughter of Gwyn Gohoyw, of the royal line of Casnar Wledig. After her husband and mother-in-law, Rhiannon, were spirited away into the Otherworld, she was left alone with her father-in-law, Manawyddan with whom she lived until the enchantments lying upon Dyfed were lifted.
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In 113 BC, a Roman army sent to support the Celtic kingdom of Noricum in the Eastern Alps, against northern invaders, suffered defeat. The invaders were known by the name of Cimbri, and later evidence suggests that the bearers of this name came from Himmerland County, Jutland, although their ranks had probably been considerably augmented on their way southwards. It is important to forego any hasty ethnological deductions about the Cimbri on the basis of their geographical starting-point. The personal names of their leaders, such as are known, are all purely Celtic, and passages from Diodorus, Strabo, and Pliny could all be taken as showing that the Cimbri spoke a Celtic language. The name Teutones itself is a Latin form of the Celtic word meaning 'people', as already met in the Irish Tuath, and in the Gaulish deity name Teutates. J. Bråten suggests that there might be some connection between the Cimbri expedition, the Borremose Castle and the Gundestrup Cauldron.
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A sorceress in classical mythology. She is found in Homer's ODYSSEY and Apollonius Rhodius' ARGONAUTICA. In PERCEFOREST she married Bethides and brought the Romans into Britain.
See also I. Wilkens: WHERE TROY ONCE STOOD p 185 ff.
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A son of Aelle, he accompanied his father when he defeated the Britons.
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A spirit-haunted, otherworldly city visited by Lancelot in PERLESVAUS.
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The scene of one of Arthur's battles, according to Nennius. K. H. Jackson (# 401) identifies it unhesitatingly as Chester, called Urbs Legionis in Latin; but there is the possibility that it was Castleford which the Romans called Legiolium. Geoffrey calls Caerleon the City of Legion. This city is also referred to as Isca Legionis and Isca Legionum in early times.
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(kew-uch) This Highland character, latterly a cave-haunting monster, was a noble cave-dwelling giant in earlier romances. W. J. Watson in the CELTIC REVIEW IX says: In view of the fact that traces of Ciuthach are found, one may say, from Clyde to the Butt of Lewis, it is clear that at one time he played a great role in the tradition of the West. Among all the confusion of the traditions as they have come down to us, there may be, and probably is, an ultimate historical basis... Throughout the references to him there runs the feeling that Ciuthach was a hero, or the hero of a race different from the Gael. Watson suggested that he might be a Pict; Professor Mac Ritchie, in the next number of the CELTIC REVIEW, put forward the theory that he was a Finn. Gill, in his SECOND MANX SCRAPBOOK, points out that it was Ciuthach whose cave was visited by Diarmuid and Grania on their flight.
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Sister of Sagremor, who was saved from two giants by Guinglain.
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A king who laid siege to Blanchefleur's castle but was then slain by Perceval in single combat.
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One of the divisions of the Fianna of Erin; Cumhal, father of Finn, chief of Clan Bascna; Cairbry causes feud between Clan Morna and Clan Bascna.
# 562
Sent by men of Erin against CuChulain. Fiacha, son of Firaba cuts off the eight-and-twenty hands of Clan Calatin. CuChulain slays Clan Calatin, and the widow gives birth to six children whom Maev has instructed in magic and then looses against CuChulain. - Cause CuChulain to break his GEISE.
# 562
(cl"n' con'al) The inhabitants of the district later known as Tir Connell in Ulster.
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(cl"n' da'gha) The subjects or followers of Cu Roi mac Dairi.
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(cl"n' yo'wan) The residents of the district roughly corresponding with modern Tyrone, earlier Tir Eogain.
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One of the divisions of the Fianna of Erin. - Lia becomes treasurer to Clann Morna. - Cairbry causes feud between Clann Bascna and Clann Morna.
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The mother of Lancelot in a German version of his story. She was the wife of King Pant of Gennewis.
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A Knight of the Round Table and a hero of the romance CLARIS ET LARIS. Laris was his companion whom he rescued from Tallas, King of Denmark. He married Laris's sister, Lidoine.
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Sister of Gawain.
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# 156: A daughter of Lot and Morgause who married Guiromelant. She was the mother of Guigenor.
# 454: According to a single Arthurian romance she was the sister of Gawain, who lived in a magic castle. Perceval overcomes her lover Guireomelant in the same text, 'Sir Percevelle'. Nowhere else is Gawain said to have a sister, but this is interesting as it brings the number of the Orkney clan up to five - the others being Gaheris, Gareth and Agravaine. As a Goddess-figure, their mother, Morgause of Orkney, should by rights have given birth to this number of children.
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Merlin's enclosure. The ancient British tradition that Britain itself was watched over by Merlin as its guardian. Esoterically, Merlin's imprisonment by Nimue has its basis in Clas Myrddyn - the place where Merlin is willingly confined in order to watch over its fortunes.
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A characteristic scene from the battle of Clastidium (222 BC) is recorded by Polybius. 'The Gaesati, who were in forefront of the Celtic army, stripped naked for the fight, and the sight of these warriors, on which glittered the collars and bracelets of gold, filled the Romans with awe. Yet when the day was over those golden ornaments went in cartloads to deck the Capitol of Rome'.
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King of the Desert Land, the opponent of King Bors, whose kingdom he seized on the latter's death. After Bor's death, his sons fell into the hands of Pharien whose wife was Claudas's lover. Claudas had them brought to him but they escaped in the guise of greyhounds, killing his son, Dorin. A war took place between Britain and Claudas when the latter imprisoned Guinevere, after insulting one of her damsels. Claudas was supported by the Romans but they were defeated. The realm of Claudas was identified with Berry, as in old French Berrie signifies a desert. Clovis I, King of the Franks AD 481-511, is a possible prototype of Claudas. See: BRUMART, and PHARIANCE.
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The first recipe in old days for encouraging fairy visits and gaining fairy favours was to leave the hearth swept and the fire clear. This seems some indication of the contention that domestic fairies were of the type of the LARES, the ancestral spirits who were the ghosts of those who had been buried under the hearth according to the primitive custom in pre-classical times. See also: VIRTUES ESTEEMED BY THE FAIRIES.
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A bowl of clear, fair water had to be left in any place where the fairy ladies were supposed to resort with their babies to wash them by the fire. Dirty water or empty pails were commonly punished by pinching or lameness. See also: FAULTS CONDEMNED BY THE FAIRIES and VIRTUES ESTEEMED BY THE FARIES.
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A Danaan maiden once living in Mananan's country. - One of the most notable landmarks of Ireland was the Tonn Cliodhna, or 'Wave of Cleena,' on the seashore at Glandore Bay in Co. Cork. The story about Cleena exists in several versions, which do not agree with each other except in so far as she seems to have been a Danaan maiden once living in Mananan's country, the Land of Youth beyond the sea. Escaping thence with a mortal lover, as one of the versions tells, she landed on the southern coast of Ireland, and her lover, Keevan of the Curling Locks, went off to hunt in the woods. Cleena, who remained on the beach, was lulled to sleep by fairy music played by a minstrel of Mananan, when a great wave of the sea swept up and carried her back to Fairyland, leaving her lover desolate. Hence the place was called the Strand of Cleena's Wave.
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The husband of Meliadice, one of Arthur's descendants. He succeeded Philippon, Meliadice's father, as King of England.
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See: CLEENA, and TONN CLIDNA.
Son of Alexander, son of the Emperor of Constantinople and his wife Soredamor, daughter of Lot. When Clig&#eacute;s's uncle Alis (Alexius) was emperor he married Fenice with whom Cligés fell in love. Unable to court her in the circumstances, he went to Arthur's court. In due course, Alis died and Cligés married Fenice. His story is told in Crétien's romance CLIGÉS, perhaps a different person, in YDER.
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(Kläm of the klåff)
A sister of Morgan.
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A son of Pharamond, killed in combat by Tristan.
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The calendar was marked on a long piece of thick wood in the earliest times, but was by the late medieval period also drawn on strips of paper in a form closely resembling that reproduced by Moses Cotsworth of Acomb.
# 730: It may be pointed out in passing that the twelve signs of the zodiac were not used for astrology in the Bronze Age (about 1200 BC). The Celts had designated thirty-six other constellations for this purpose, for their year was not divided into twelve months, but into thirty-six periods of approximately ten days each. Each of these periods was also associated with a specific type of tree.
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