This section contains posts about History and Language (H & L). Some posts may be little snippets of ideas while others are a bit more paragraphed, even unto essay-like form. History is the dangling legs over the edge of the cliff of time and language is the net folded over time to preserve its shape. Well that or they’re both meaningless as everything else. Either way, they’re things to weblog about if that’s what you want.
Three Mistical Irishmen
June 30, 2025
From A Notebook
The period 400-600 AD when Ireland is still half-legendary. . .
Wanderwort?
June 30, 2025
From A Notebook
Alpine gloss: daculum ‘sword’. Sicel (a people of Sicily) gloss: δαγκλον ‘Latin falx => Eng. sickle’.
Decetia
June 30, 2025
From A Notebook
Interesting because of the possibility it is a dialectical variant. . .
Bresal Belach
June 30, 2025
From A Notebook
Could the epithet of this legendary hero be related. . .
Names in Celtica
June 30, 2025
From A Notebook
Some of general interest for their possible links to Britain.
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