Re: [tied] legendary genealogies

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> Here's an example from Ireland, Some of them look
> recognizble --I'm guessing Lamhfionn is "White Arm"
> (vel sim.) but names like Heber, Beouman, Agnan,
> Heremon, etc. seem odd, After Mile Espaine and the
> supposed invasion, the names starting looking more
> recognizable. Are some of the 1st names supposed to be
> parodies of foreign names or are they really from
> Gaelic?

Some of the names are Irish, some are derived from the Bible, and
others are Gaelicized forms of names derived from Latin pseudo-
historical sources which were popular in medieval Ireland, such as
Isidore and Orosius (Mil Espaine being a notable example - it is
derived from Latin miles hispaniae "soldier of Spain"; for more on
this, read the following articles:
http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/ocorr.htm /
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebor_Gab%C3%A1la_%C3%89renn )

> Gaodhal; epynomous ancestor of the Gaels

Which is ultimately a borrowing Old Welsh Guoidel "Irishman".

- Chris Gwinn