Hello,

my name is Marcus and i am from germany. in my freetime i play an irish soldier in the 12th century. now i have bought a sword and i am searching for a suitably female name, maby of a god or from out of the irish mythologie.

by the way i have a new shield. on the backside i would like to have a battlecry from the province ulster. maybe someone can help me.

Greets

Marcus

Maedhbh would be a good one I suppose.

For an Ulster Character, I would suggest Macha (as in Ard/Eamain Mhacha)

http://www.timelessmyths.com/celtic/ulster.html#EmainMacha

Schlachtrüfe sind schwieriger, ad nicht so sehr überliefert. Mal sehen.

thanks a lot. unforunally i can´t find something about maedhbh.

so the link i can´t open too but i have found something else about mhacha. but what kind of god she was?

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maedhbh

Ní scríobhtar le "ae" de ghnáth é.

Old Irish: Medb
Modern: Méabh
Anglicized: Maeve

Bain triail as:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb

Macha ist eine Kriegsgöttin, also sehr passend.

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an irish soldier in the 12th century... on the backside i would like to have a battlecry from the province ulster.

None are known from that period, mura bhfuil dul amú orm. The general battle-cry "Pharo! Pharo!" is reported for the late Middle Ages in Foras Feasa ar Éirinn:

Adeir Stanihurst an tan bhíd Éireannaigh ag comhrac, nó ag bualadh a chéile, go n-abraid mar chomhairc do ghuth árd, ‘Pharo, Pharo’, agus saoilidh seisean gurab ó'n bhfocal so ‘Pharao’, fá hainm do rígh Éigipte chleachtaid mar chomhairc é: gidheadh ní fíor dó sin, óir is ionann é agus ‘faire, faire ó’, nó ‘ó faire’, ag a rádh ris an rann eile bheith ar a gcoiméad, amhail adeir an Francach ‘garda, garda’, an tan dochí a chomharsa i nguais.

And the formula "X abú! = Up with X!" is probably even later.

ok kriegsgöttin passt schon mal sehr gut;-) hmm was ist denn noch mit einem spruch den ich mir auf mein schild machen kann? fällt dir da was ein

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hmm was ist denn noch mit einem spruch den ich mir auf mein schild machen kann? fällt dir da was ein

Have a look at the quotations at:

http://www.sengoidelc.com/

Hey dennis,

ok but i have the problem that i can´t translate it and i don´t know what the text means. i don´t understand the irish language;-)

Aonghus kann es ins Deutsche übersetzen. :-)

das hört sich gut an;-) auf der seite war der ein oder andere nette spruch dabei;-)

A chara,

I hope you find the perfect name and have lots of fun playing.

Beir bua agus beannacht

Ich denke mal das "X abú" (Es lebe X, oder hoch X) das beste wäre)

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Aonghus kann es ins Deutsche übersetzen

Ach níl seanghaeilge agamsa...

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Ach níl seanghaeilge agamsa...

A leithéid de leithscéal! Is cuma faoin tSean-Ghaeilge. Nua-Ghaeilge Chlasaiceach a scríobh an Céitinneach.

Is é an chaoi go bhfuil aistriúchán den téacs iomlán, Foras Feasa ó thús deireadh, ar fáil ó CELT:

Stanihurst says that when Irishmen are contending, or striking each other, they say as a shout with a loud voice, ‘Pharo, Pharo,’ and he thinks that it is from this word Pharao, which was a name for the king of Egypt, they use it as a war-cry: howbeit, that is not true for him, for it is the same as ‘watch, watch O’, or, ‘O take care’, telling the other party to be on their guard, as the Frenchman says, ‘gardez, gardez’, when he sees his neighbour in danger.

Míthuiscint.

Cheap mé gurbh na ráite ar sengoidelc a bhí i gceist.

Is maith liom "pharo, pharo" ach níl mé in ann é a aimsiú aon áit eile i litríocht na nGael, i scéal nó i ndán. Is dócha gur ó "above" an Bhéarla a tháinig "abú" isteach sa teanga. Féach mar a úsáidtear "up!" (Up X!) sa Ghaeltacht inniu.