| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1632 |
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Greetings!
I'm hoping this conference can lead me to some resources. I'm planning
to join the Society for Creative Anachronism, and I have to come
up with a "persona" from the appropriate time period. Although
I know very little about the time period in question, I've always
been sort of interested in Wales and Ireland (and Scotland) -- and
I'm thinking of the 14th or 15th centuries, maybe.
What I need are suggestions for names (female) appropriate to those
places and times, and some information about what wwas going on
historically then -- ideally both the broad events and some detail
of everyday lives of the gentry.
Any suggested readings, brilliant ideas, movies to rent -- any
resources gratefully received!
Thanks!!
Sherry
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| 653.1 | Bruce is alive and well | DUB01::BRENNAN_M | Take that look off your face | Tue Oct 03 1989 11:34 | 12 |
Perhaps the most appropriate female name from Ireland is "Grainne"
after the legendory Grace O'Malley (Grainneuile). She was a famous
female pirate of this period.
From the male side "Shane" as in Shane O'Neill. A very well known
Irish Leader.
An excellent book on this and other periods is "Celtic Warriors
400BC to 1600AD. I do not know the author
MBr
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| 653.2 | It could have happened. | PENUTS::KSULLIVAN | Wed Oct 04 1989 11:08 | 34 | |
Historically speaking not a lot was going on during that period.
Most of the gentry, and for that matter, the peasantry also, were
hanging out in the bars, in the ditches, and up against haystacks,
reading Chaucer and/or waiting for his next publication.
In my opinion there is a direct link between this man and the
population explosion that occured over the following centuries, to
a staggering eight million people by the 19th century. His bawdy,
lustfilled writings, which were later reinforced by that other
libertine Shakespeare, had the poor people of Ireland, driven
crazy with wild-eyed lust. Even the Bishops and Priests, though
they struggled hard and prayed long, were not immune from this
insane insatiability. A Papal Nuncio was sent over sometime during
the 16th century to try and bring things back under control, (there
were more Devouts applying for this difficult mission than ever before
or since, in the history of the Vatican), but sending an Italian to
Ireland at the time was the same as sending an alcoholic to quell
a riot in a brewery. It took the wrath of God in the form of a
potatoe blight in the 19th century, though the English naturally had
to be blamed, to put an end to this misbehaviour. People in Ireland
today prefer not to talk about this period, as they find it a little
embarrassing, but did you ever notice and wonder why they all smile
so frequently???
(This irreverent look at the history of the period is not intended to
offend anyone).
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| 653.3 | Wild times! | WECARE::BAILEY | Corporate Sleuth | Wed Oct 04 1989 16:44 | 8 |
Heavens! I must have read the wrong portions of Chaucer in school!!!
So, anybody else have contributions? Still looking for names and
books and resources...
Thanks!
Sherry
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| 653.4 | Bloody Whiskey! | BIOMIC::LONERGAN | Mon Nov 13 1989 10:35 | 6 | |
Well there was that wild woman from north of Hadrians Wall....but
then she went and lost her head !
Or the other likewise named one whom the crimson vodka's were named
after...
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