ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 840 http://www.s-gabriel.org/840 *********************************** ************************************************* * * * NOTE: Some of the Academy's early reports * * contain errors that we haven't yet * * corrected. Please use it with caution. * * * ************************************************* ************************************************* * * * NOTE: Later research turned up additional * * information relevant to this report. * * See the end of the letter for details. * * * ************************************************* From: 29 Mar 1998 Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You asked us about the Gaelic name in the 9th-13th centuries. It appears that is the modern Irish spelling of [1], which we found dated to the 12th century and later [2]. (The '/' represents an accent over the previous letter.) would be pronounced \EE-fyeh\. *** See below for important information about . appears about the same time in a variety of spellings, eg. [3,4]: The problem is that while and are both fine Irish names for your period, they are both first names. Either name could be used, but using both of them is incorrect since double given names (middle names) were not used in period Gaelic. You should choose one of these two names and combine it with a last name. The usual pattern for Irish names is to identify the father in the last name, a form known as a patronymic. A typical example would be , that is, "Ai/fe daughter of Domnall". There are numerous Irish given names, such that we cannot provide a list of all the possibilities. You can find information about good sources in the on-line article "Choosing an Irish Name" at: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/irishnam.html or the article "Feminine Names from the Index to O'Brien's 'Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae'" at: http://www.us.itd.umich.edu/~ximenez/s.gabriel/docs/irish-obrien.html We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to assist you. Talan Gwynek, Elsbeth Anne Roth, Arval Benicoeur, and Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn contributed to this letter. In service, --Walraven van Nijmegen Academy of S. Gabriel [1] Donnchadh O/ Corra/in and Fidelma Maguire, _Irish Names_ (Dublin : The Lilliput Press, 1990). [2] Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, _Feminine Names from the Index to O'Brien's "Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae"_ (WWW) http://www.us.itd.umich.edu/~ximenez/s.gabriel/docs/irish-obrien.html [3] Patrick Woulfe, _Sloinnte Gaetheal is Gall: Irish Names and Surnames_ (Kansas City: Irish Genealogical Foundation). [4] M.A. O'Brien, ed., _Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae_ (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Correction, Arval, 20 Mar 2003: Reference [2] contains some names which we have discovered were used only in legend, not be real people. may be one such. See the correction to 2028 for details.