Terms Flashcards
(50 cards)
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Ogham (3)
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- writing a series of notches
- the druids said to have started it, first with a sign language
- the god Ogma is credited with it’s creation
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Boudican Destruction Horizon
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Colchester burned by Boudica, to fight the Romans
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Echtrai
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adventures
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Baill
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visions, ecstasies
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fir
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truth, good qualities
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gá
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falshood, bad faults
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geis (3)
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- sacred prohibition, magical imposition or taboo
- originally reserved for the priestly class
- the heroine who utters the magical incantation
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feis lemrach
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the hill of Tara’s installation of a new king
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Táin
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book of stories including those of: Medb, Fedelm
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Bile medba
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sacred tree of Medb
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Coracle/Currach
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a one person boat made of animal skins
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vergobret
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Gallic judge
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Early Irish Society (3)
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- Hierarchical
- Unegalitarian
- offences against high-state people greater than an offence against the poor
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Fine (4)
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- Kin-Groups
- preserves legal power over it’s members
- may have to pay for crimes and debts of it’s memebers
- killing a fingal can lead to a vendetta
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derbfhine
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all descendants through the male line of the same great-grandfather
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fingal
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kinsman
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vendetta
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blood-fued
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Maternal Kin (5)
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- in marriage women don’t entirely sever their connection with their own kin
- more formal, more severance
- if she marries lower, she’s a little higher than her husband
- Maternal kin have rights to the children of marriage
- the uncle can be a tutor to the child
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Irish Law (3)
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- no difference between criminal and civil difference
- if murder of injury - ériac
- if they could pay the fine, the kin pays
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ériac
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body fine/blood money
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Brithem (3)
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- judges
- minor case, one
- larger case, several
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Brithem Tuaithe
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Official Judge
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Banshenchas (2)
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- Lore of Women
- Reticence, Virtue and Industry are the qualities most admired in women
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Legal Capacity of Woman (2)
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- status of a woman reflected her fathers
- ban shaer: female hermit, woman-physician, female miracle doer
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Legal Capacity of Men
status of a man proportionate to that of his land
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Ban Shaer
Freed Women
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Jurists (7)
-people of no status
-women sleeping with whomever they wish
-women who steal
-women trafficking charms
compensation reduced:
-the sharp-tongued virago
-the werewolf
-vagrant who goes off with sid folk
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brichtu ban
female magic
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Lánammas (7)
-Marriage
-husband purchases his wife from father (creic cétmuintire)
-give coibche to the father, the bride may be entitled to a portion
woman's role:
-sex, fertility and her womanly function
-exclusive rights to her body and offspring
man's role:
-his male function and reproductive stuff
-husband can hit wife as long as no permanent blemish
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creic cétmuintire
the act of a man buying a woman from the father
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Coibche
bride price
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cétmuinter (5)
- chief wife
- sons would have right to inheritance of father
- must be under the rule of her husband
- full-body-price
- has the right to beat the concubine for three days
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adaltrach or dormun (5)
- concubine
- sons would have right to inheritance of father
- can choose to be under husband, son, kin
- half-body-price
- can only scratch, pull hair, speak abusively or other minor injuries to chief wife
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Cáin
under rule of...
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Imscarad (2)
- Divorce
| - division of property depends on status of marriage
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Circumstances for Wife to Divorce (11)
- if the husband repudiates fer for another woman
- fails to support her
- he spreads a false story of her
- circulates a satire about her
- tricks her into marriage by sorcery
- if blow from husband leaves a blemish
- he becomes impotent
- becomes too fat for intercourse
- practices in homosexuality
- is sterile
- is indiscreet about their sexual relationship
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Circumstances for Husband to Divorce (5)
- Unfaithful
- a persistent thief
- brings shame on his honour
- has an abortion
- smothers her child
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élúdach
an outlaw
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Offenses of Women (4)
- if unmarried paid by her kin
- if chief wife paid two thirds by sons on third by kin
- a woman may injure another woman
- if a woman willingly goes into an ale house without her protector she forfeit the right of her status
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Rape (2)
forcor: forcible rape
sleth: subjection to sexual intercourse without full consent, ie. drunk
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Penalties for Rape (3)
- rapist must pay lóg n-enech to her superior
- if she becomes pregnant he is in charge
- not liable if she is promiscuous or adulterous
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lóg n-enech
honour-price
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banchomarbae
female-heir
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Female Inheritance (3)
- entitled to a share of her father's personal valuables, but not his land
- if no bother's, entitaled to a life-interest in her father's land
- when she dies it is reverted to the wider circle of her kin
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Female's in Church Rights (2)
- Nuns had certain legal rights
| - evidence from a nun may be accepted against a cleric
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Gutuatri
Priests of the early celts of the continent
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fili
chief druid
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Larzac Tablet
- longest Gaulish text referencing women and magic
- magical charms used by Gaulish women
- they would address the goddess Adagsona by the intermediary of a tomb
- they believe they are victim of a conspiracy of women, that have taken advantage of the services of Serva Tertionicna
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Imbas Forosnai
a special gift of clairvoyance possessed by poets
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Hare
- totemic animal in Celtic myth
- animal of the Iceni
- saved by Melangell
