Irish Translation Forum

deilf wrote:
And, uh, oisin718, interesting new avatar... any significance?

I like beagles. I have two of them.

wdsci wrote:P.S. something interesting I noticed on http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/iri-myth.html: in mythology, Ailill was the name of the husband of queen Méabh? Is this a coincidence?

What are you trying to imply?

Actually, I've developed a taste for poets rather than kings... (David runs off to research)

HEE!

He'd need an Old Irish dictionary to figure that one out


Wait...Oisín was a poet!

A face doesn't exactly help my ego ...
your first guess was closer :wink:

I knew who you meant

Méabh wrote:

wdsci wrote:P.S. something interesting I noticed on http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/iri-myth.html: in mythology, Ailill was the name of the husband of queen Méabh? Is this a coincidence?

What are you trying to imply?

Actually, I've developed a taste for poets rather than kings... (David runs off to research)

Actually I was wondering if somehow you and Ailill had gotten your "forum names" from the same source . . . but I'm not looking into this topic anymore!

David

hehe I don't know what page Ailill used to get his screen name, but his bases on his fíorainm in a sense

I took on Méabh after some people here started calling me Queen Maeve (for various reasons) ...but yes, reading the shee-eire.com version of the Pillow Talk sealed it for me that I wanted to be Méabh. The spelling is the one given in the FGB under the word "Banríon" (points down to the chicken scratch signature)