Celtic Names

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Celtic has various meanings depending on context. The term is used to refer to a family of languages with ancient European origins that was encountered by the Romans as they expanded their empire northward.

The family includes Breton, British/Brittonic (not English), Brythonic, Cornish, Cumbric, Gaulish, Gaelic, Iberian, Irish, Manx, Pictic, Welsh...

This article will focus on very early period, i.e. Roman era, Celtic names. For most of SCA period, see article on Gaelic Names.

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Sources:

St. Gabriel Scottish Names - http:''www.s-gabriel.org/names/scottish.shtmlSt. Gabriel Irish and Manx Names - [[1]]St. Gabriel Welsh, Cornish and Breton Names - [[2]]St. Gabriel Gaulish Names - [[3]]St. Gabriel Pictish Names - [www.s-gabriel.org/names/otherearly.shtml#pictish] Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/ Archive of St. Gabriel reports - [[4]] Laurel Name Articles - http:heraldry.sca.org/laurel/ IGI Searches, batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable - [[5]]

Name Constructions in Gaulish - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/gaulish/

Gaulish Personal Names by Ellis

Noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule - Morlet's two-volume work

The People of Roman Britain by Birley

100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early Medieval Ireland by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (Heather Rose Jones) -[[6]]

A Manx Notebook - [[7]]

Early Irish names (about as close as we can get to Manx names right now?) from the Irish Annals -@http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/501-700.shtml and @http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/701-1050.shtml .

Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP) on-line database (@http:''www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/) includes stones in Ogham from the Isle of Man: http:www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/index/site_geog.html#isleofman

The First Thousand Years of British Names - [[8]]

CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) - http://celt.ucc.ie/publishd.html#tfirish

The Picts and their Placenames - free download at - http://www.groamhouse.org.uk/index.asp?pageid=41172

P-Celtic in Southern Scotland and Cumbria: a review of the place-name evidence for possible Pictish phonology - http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/JSNS/V7/JSNS7%20James.pdf

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Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[9]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[10]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents) Restatement Wiki - [[11]] (restatements of Precedents) Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Collected Precedents of the SCA: Ogham (pre-Gaelic Irish) - [[12]]

Collected Precedents of the SCA: Pictish - [[13]]

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