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1
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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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4
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Baill

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visions, ecstasies

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5
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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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7
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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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9
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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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12
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vergobret

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Gallic judge

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13
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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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14
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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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16
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fingal

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kinsman

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17
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vendetta

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blood-fued

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18
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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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21
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Brithem (3)

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  • judges
  • minor case, one
  • larger case, several
22
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Brithem Tuaithe

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Official Judge

23
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Banshenchas (2)

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  • Lore of Women

- Reticence, Virtue and Industry are the qualities most admired in women

24
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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

25
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Legal Capacity of Men

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status of a man proportionate to that of his land

26
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Ban Shaer

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Freed Women

27
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Jurists (7)

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-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

28
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brichtu ban

A

female magic

29
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Lánammas (7)

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-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

30
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creic cétmuintire

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the act of a man buying a woman from the father

31
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Coibche

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bride price

32
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cétmuinter (5)

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  • 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
33
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adaltrach or dormun (5)

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  • 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
34
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Cáin

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under rule of…

35
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Imscarad (2)

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  • Divorce

- division of property depends on status of marriage

36
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Circumstances for Wife to Divorce (11)

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  • 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
37
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Circumstances for Husband to Divorce (5)

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  • Unfaithful
  • a persistent thief
  • brings shame on his honour
  • has an abortion
  • smothers her child
38
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élúdach

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an outlaw

39
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Offenses of Women (4)

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  • 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
40
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Rape (2)

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forcor: forcible rape
sleth: subjection to sexual intercourse without full consent, ie. drunk

41
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Penalties for Rape (3)

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  • 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
42
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lóg n-enech

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honour-price

43
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banchomarbae

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female-heir

44
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Female Inheritance (3)

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  • 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
45
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Female’s in Church Rights (2)

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  • Nuns had certain legal rights

- evidence from a nun may be accepted against a cleric

46
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Gutuatri

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Priests of the early celts of the continent

47
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fili

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chief druid

48
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Larzac Tablet

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  • 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
49
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Imbas Forosnai

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a special gift of clairvoyance possessed by poets

50
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Hare

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  • totemic animal in Celtic myth
  • animal of the Iceni
  • saved by Melangell

Celtic Woman Between Myth and Reality (4 decks)

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