Terms Flashcards
Ogham (3)
- 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
Boudican Destruction Horizon
Colchester burned by Boudica, to fight the Romans
Echtrai
adventures
Baill
visions, ecstasies
fir
truth, good qualities
gá
falshood, bad faults
geis (3)
- sacred prohibition, magical imposition or taboo
- originally reserved for the priestly class
- the heroine who utters the magical incantation
feis lemrach
the hill of Tara’s installation of a new king
Táin
book of stories including those of: Medb, Fedelm
Bile medba
sacred tree of Medb
Coracle/Currach
a one person boat made of animal skins
vergobret
Gallic judge
Early Irish Society (3)
- Hierarchical
- Unegalitarian
- offences against high-state people greater than an offence against the poor
Fine (4)
- 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
derbfhine
all descendants through the male line of the same great-grandfather
fingal
kinsman
vendetta
blood-fued
Maternal Kin (5)
- 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
Irish Law (3)
- no difference between criminal and civil difference
- if murder of injury - ériac
- if they could pay the fine, the kin pays
ériac
body fine/blood money
Brithem (3)
- judges
- minor case, one
- larger case, several
Brithem Tuaithe
Official Judge
Banshenchas (2)
- Lore of Women
- Reticence, Virtue and Industry are the qualities most admired in women
Legal Capacity of Woman (2)
- status of a woman reflected her fathers
- ban shaer: female hermit, woman-physician, female miracle doer
Legal Capacity of Men
status of a man proportionate to that of his land
Ban Shaer
Freed Women
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
brichtu ban
female magic
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
creic cétmuintire
the act of a man buying a woman from the father
Coibche
bride price
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
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
Cáin
under rule of…
Imscarad (2)
- Divorce
- division of property depends on status of marriage
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
Circumstances for Husband to Divorce (5)
- Unfaithful
- a persistent thief
- brings shame on his honour
- has an abortion
- smothers her child
élúdach
an outlaw
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
Rape (2)
forcor: forcible rape
sleth: subjection to sexual intercourse without full consent, ie. drunk
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
lóg n-enech
honour-price
banchomarbae
female-heir
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
Female’s in Church Rights (2)
- Nuns had certain legal rights
- evidence from a nun may be accepted against a cleric
Gutuatri
Priests of the early celts of the continent
fili
chief druid
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
Imbas Forosnai
a special gift of clairvoyance possessed by poets
Hare
- totemic animal in Celtic myth
- animal of the Iceni
- saved by Melangell
