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Quiver: Talbeáh
UNIVERSITY OF EOFRIC TERMINAL 4 ASKS:
Why is Talbeáh referred to as such? Where did the name come from?
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY AT HÆSTINGAS TERMINAL 2 ANSWERS:
Talbeáh is a combined, shortened, and mutated form of the Gaelic translation of the term “Terra Ursus”, which is “Bear Land” or “Land of Bears”, depending on which Latin translation you read.
That term came from the Peace of Armagh, which was negotiated by the Irish Bishop of Armagh in the 7th Century. The Fánaithe, or early Irish explorers/fur-trappers, had been trading with native peoples on the mainland for some time from their bases on Blessed Isle. They had a million different terms for this land, and the Bishop of Armagh didn’t want to pick any of those because he thought they were all too smutty. For reals. So he instead asked what the land was like, and all the Fánaithe said “there’s a lot of bears”. So he had his scribe start calling it Terra Ursus.
Well the Fánaithe didn’t speak Latin mostly, so that quickly was translated to Irish, and then evolved into Talbeáh, still basically meaning “Land of Bears”.
Why is Talbeáh referred to as such? Where did the name come from?
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY AT HÆSTINGAS TERMINAL 2 ANSWERS:
Talbeáh is a combined, shortened, and mutated form of the Gaelic translation of the term “Terra Ursus”, which is “Bear Land” or “Land of Bears”, depending on which Latin translation you read.
That term came from the Peace of Armagh, which was negotiated by the Irish Bishop of Armagh in the 7th Century. The Fánaithe, or early Irish explorers/fur-trappers, had been trading with native peoples on the mainland for some time from their bases on Blessed Isle. They had a million different terms for this land, and the Bishop of Armagh didn’t want to pick any of those because he thought they were all too smutty. For reals. So he instead asked what the land was like, and all the Fánaithe said “there’s a lot of bears”. So he had his scribe start calling it Terra Ursus.
Well the Fánaithe didn’t speak Latin mostly, so that quickly was translated to Irish, and then evolved into Talbeáh, still basically meaning “Land of Bears”.
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