The known Cimbri chiefs have names that look Celtic, including Boiorix ( which may mean " King of the Boii " or, more literally, " King of Strikers "), Gaesorix ( which means " Spear King "), and Lugius ( which may be named after the Celtic god Lugus ), although this may not mean that they are Celtic as the elements could work in Germanic ( compare the name of the Vandalic king Gaiseric, which is likely identical to Gaesorix ).

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

In 1986, he moved to Oxford, England to do research for The Pendragon Cycle, a reinterpretation of the legend of King Arthur in a Celtic setting combined with elements of Atlantis.

In the 1990s, he published Byzantium, a work of pure historical fiction, followed by " The Celtic Crusades " trilogy, set at the time of the Crusades, and then Avalon: The Return of King Arthur, a stand-alone related to the Pendragon Cycle.

Cymbeline (), also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by William Shakespeare, based on legends concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobelinus.

Influenced at a young age by heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden, Slayer, Death, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, King Diamond, Morbid Angel, and most importantly Judas Priest.

Several notable Celtic scholars, including Joseph Loth and Kuno Meyer, have preferred to derive it rather from Old Irish bolc " gap, breach, notch " ( cognate with Welsh bwlch ), suggesting a linguistic link with the second element in the name of Fergus mac Róich's sword, Caladbolg and King Arthur's sword Caledfwlch.

Image by Ernest Wallcousins | E. Wallcousins in " Celtic Myth & Legend ", Charles Squire, 1920 .</ br ></ br > " Horses shall I have, and chivalry ; and my lord and kinsman King Arthur | Arthur will obtain for me all these things.

There may have been a Celtic Christian church called ' Lanprobi ' at the site, and Kenwalc or Cenwalh, King of the West Saxons is believed to be one of its founders.

When King Alexander II ascended to the throne, a rebellion broke out in Moray and western Ross-shire, whose Celtic population were opposed to the laws and customs of the south.

In Jack Whyte's The Camulod Chronicles, Uther is King of the Pendragon, the Celtic people of South Cambria, cousin to Caius Merlyn Britannicus and Ambrose Ambrosianus Britannicus.

Those supporting the " Celtic " viewpoint were King Oswiu, Hilda, the Abbess of Whitby, Cedd, a bishop, and Colmán of Lindisfarne, the Bishop of Lindisfarne.

* The historical novel Macbeth: An Historical Novel of the Last Celtic King ( 2011 ) by Robert Harrison, opens with the victory of Malcolm II of Scotland over his predecessor Kenneth III.

* Holden, Brock W., " King John, the Braoses, and the Celtic Fringe, 1207-1216 ", Albion: Journal of British Studies v. 33 ( 2001 )

According to the fourteenth-century chronicler, John of Fordun, Malcolm III, King of Scotland ( reign 1058 – 93 ) married his second bride, the Anglo-Hungarian princess, Saint Margaret, at the church in Dunfermline between 1068 and 1070 ; the ceremony was performed by Forhad, the last Celtic bishop of St Andrews.

* The defeat of Caradoc ( Caratacus ) by the Romans is the subject of Henry Treece's 1952 adult novel, The Dark Island, the second book in his Celtic Tetralogy.

The resistance was mainly organized by the Celtic leader Caratacus, exiled in their lands after the defeat of his tribe in the Battle of the Medway.

Based on ancient Greek historical sources, a Thracian or a Celtic association is sometimes assumed.

Telesphorus is assumed to have been a Celtic god in origin, who was taken to Anatolia by the Galatians in the 3rd century BC, where he would have become associated with the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius, perhaps in Pergamon, an Asclepian cult center.

It has also been suggested that the gemination nn is typical to a Belgae language, being different from Celtic and thus impelling a Nordwestblock etymology that is also assumed to be closer to Germanic.

Born in Spain he became a Legionary commander in Britain, assembled a Celtic army and assumed the title of Emperor of the Western Roman Empire in AD 383.

A tradition reported by Justin and Pliny the Elder affirmed that they were a portion of that people who had settled in the plains of the Po and were driven into the mountains by the invading Gauls, when they assumed the name of " Raetians " from an eponymous leader Raetus ; a more probable derivation, however, is from Celtic rait (" mountain land ").

Both are French importations of valet ( the t being silent in French ) or varlet, Old French variants of vaslet " man's servant ," originally " squire, young man ," assumed to be from Gallo-Romance * vassellittus " young nobleman, squire, page ," diminutive of Medieval Latin vassallus, from vassus " servant ", possibly cognate to an Old Celtic root wasso-" young man, squire " ( source of Welsh gwas " youth, servant ," Breton goaz " servant, vassal, man ," Irish foss " servant ").

Up until the second half of the 20th century it had been assumed by some scholars that the altar was endowed in 184 BC by Eumenes II after a victory over the Celtic Tolistoagian tribe and their leader Ortiagon.

Although assumed to have left traces within all other Indo-European languages as well, its influence would have been especially strong on Celtic languages originating north of the Alps and on the region including Belgium and the Rhineland.

It is assumed that this term specifically referred to the Celtic Volcae, because application of the first Germanic sound change to that word produces the form * Walh -.

They gradually assumed control of the Celtic city of Burbetomagus, later Worms.

In this direction he has had many followers, who have sometimes assumed the appearance of pioneers ; but after Matthew Arnold's fine lecture on Celtic Literature, nothing perhaps did more to help the Celtic revival than Aubrey de Vere's tender insight into the Irish character, and his stirring reproductions of the early Irish epic poetry.

By that time McNamara had already accepted an offer from Wolverhampton Wanderers as he had assumed Celtic no longer wanted his services.

* In addition to Cessair posing as a goddess, both her real name and her assumed identity come from Celtic mythology.

He was a member of the Highland Society and the Celtic Society of Edinburgh, and in June 1815 formed his own Society of True Highlanders, subsequently leaving the Celtic Society and complaining that " their general appearance is assumed and fictitious, and they have no right to burlesque the national character or dress of the Highlands ".

Those French members who rejected the opportunity to join the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria assumed the title of the French Eparchy: L ' Eglise Orthodoxe Celtique ( the Celtic Orthodox Church ) to indicate that its jurisdiction covered the area of the former Celtic missions.

It is assumed now that, for the time being Celtic Tiger has been put on hold while Michael spends time with his wife and son Michael St. James.

The Latin c and Greek k attest an earlier stage of Germanic in which the Germanic sound shift was not yet completed (* k > * χ > h ), or it has been assumed the Latin form may be derived through Celtic which substituted ch for h ( Germanic * himbr -, Celtic * chimbr -, Latin cimbr -).

This trend also is evident in many Celtic myths, such as the ( Welsh ) mabinogi stories of Culhwch and Olwen, or the ( Irish ) Ulster Cycle, most notably the key facts to the Cúchulainn cycle that Cúchulainn gets his final secret training with a warrior woman, Scáthach, and becomes lover both to her and her daughter ; and the root of the Táin Bó Cuailnge, that while Ailill may wear the crown of Connacht, it is his wife Medb who is the real power, and she needs to affirm her equality to her husband by owning chattels as great as he does.

Later she came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul and was believed to be a goddess of hot springs and the origin of the Anglo-Celtic sun goddess, Sul.

As such, she may be a Celtic personification of death, and is depicted as predicting death in battle.

Together with her sons, Cystennin and Peblig ( Publicus, named in the calendar of the Church in Wales ), she is said to have introduced into Wales the Celtic form of monasticism from Gaul.

Proto-Celtic is reconstructed as having * werbā-' blister ' in its lexicon and the name may be a suffixed form of this lexeme meaning “ blistered one .” On the other hand, the root of the name may represent a Celtic reflex of the Proto-Indo-European root * wer-bhe-‘ bend, turn ,’ cognate with Modern English warp, followed by the durative suffix *- j-and the feminine suffix *- ā-and so might have meant “ she who is constantly bending and turning .” Another possibility is that the name is a compound of Romano-British reflexes of the Proto-Celtic elements ** Uφer-bej-ā-( upper-strike-F ) “ the upper striker .”

Máire Brennan, lead singer of Celtic / New Age band Clannad, was brought in to help Joanne with the Gaelic pronunciation, and she sang backup vocals.

The Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym alludes to Guinevere's abduction in two of his poems, and the medievalist Roger Sherman Loomis suggested that this tale shows that " she had inherited the role of a Celtic Persephone ".

Irish poet and Celtic mythologist Ella Young's final years were spent in Oceano ( she died there in 1956 ).

Brettonais from the village of Plouha ..." Wretched though she was, some of the mystery of that mysterious land still clung to her ... the gravity of her glance, the innocence and primitive mind ... there were dark corners of Celtic brooding ... a little scarecrow.

In 1982 she pursued another private prosecution, this time against Michael Bogdanov, the director of a National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain, a play that " drew a direct parallel between the Roman invasion of Celtic Britain in 54 BC and the contemporary British presence in Northern Ireland.

Developing a passion for Celtic music, she learned to play the Celtic harp and began busking at various places, including St. Lawrence Market in Toronto in order to earn money to record her first album.

The album The Mask and Mirror was preceded by research in Spain where she engaged in studying Galicia, a Celtic section of Spain, along with its abundant Arabic roots.

In the Time Trader series, she explored Celtic Europe, and Ice Age America, synthesizing of anthropology, archeology, and hard science fiction, and this series must also be seen as a pivotal exploration of time travel, as a method of fictionally exploring lost cultures.

The Irish ' Book of Lismore ', a traditional book on the lives of the ancient Celtic Irish saints written in Irish, Saint Brigid is described: ' She is the prophetess of Christ ; she is the Queen of the South ; she is the Mary of the Gael.

In the Celtic Woman: A New Journey tours, she sang duets with Ní Mhaolchatha, Westenra, and the vocalist-guitarist of the same group, Lynn Hilary.

Ó Cuív is the son of Brian Ó Cuív, professor of Celtic Studies at University College Dublin, and Emer de Valera, who was the last surviving daughter of Fianna Fáil founder and former President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera, when she died at the age of 93 in February 2012.

Although the name " Sulis " appears almost nowhere else outside Bath, she is identified with the Suleviae, a group of Celtic goddesses known as the subject of votive inscriptions in the city of Rome and elsewhere ; Suleviae has been attested in the epigraphic record from sites at Bath.

After learning to play the guitar, the fiddle, and the piano, as well as to sing, she played in many local folk festivals as a child and adolescent, before joining ( and becoming the lead vocalist of ) the all-female Celtic folk band The Poozies.

degree in Celtic Studies, but she left after a year without graduating.

Here, with a few companions, she learned the traditions of Celtic monasticism, which Aidan brought from Iona.

She sang and played fiddle with science fiction author Emma Bull in folk duo The Flash Girls, with the band Folk UnderGround, and in the goth / folk / rock / traditional Celtic duo Lorraine a ' Malena with Malena Teves, which whom she also contributed to Chris Ewen's The Hidden Variable.

Her stylistic innovations made her famous in the Celtic music scene, and she began teaching in continental Europe and in the United States.