#medieval ireland

[memories-of-ancients]

The Derrynaflan Chalice, uncovered near Killenaule in County Tipperary, Ireland, 10th-12th century

#history #antiquities #art #middle ages #medieval art #medieval ireland

[bitsandbobsofwriting]

Sooooo... I've had a thought for a while. How awesome would it have been if they had let Colin Morgan keep actual his Irish accent to remind ppl that he wasn't originally from Camelot? Like, maybe it becomes subtler as the seasons go on but it's always there and when he gets tired or angry the lilt would come out FULL FORCE and ppl that didn't know or forget would be like, yo wtf???

(Headcanon Masterlist) (Full Masterlist)

Ok so I rarely answer asks as soon as I see them but

Anon

I DEDICATE AT LEAST HALF AN HOUR OF EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY THINKING ABOUT MERLIN WITH AN ACCENT!!!!

Like.... I'm turning this into a headcanon set because I need to think about this right now (if someone else wants to expand it that's fine, or if it's popular enough, I'll add it to the next List update).

ANYWAY!!!

Say he's not actually from Essetir, but Ireland (from research I think it was called Hibernia during the medieval ages, or maybe Alba? I'm not sure, so I'll just stick with Ireland), and Balinor ran a little further afield before meeting Hunith, and then returning once things had settled down to live in that skanky cave, so he can keep an eye on how Camelot was doing. Hunith and Merlin travel to Essetir when Merlin is maybe twelve or so?? So the accent and customs (and even the language) is like... heavily embedded. (To cover plot holes... uh... Gaius is also Irish, but travelled over with... relatives(?) when he was so young that he doesn't have an accent, or even really any memories of home. He has however visited and been visited by his sister enough to have a good relationship with her, and they exchanged letters regularly before and after she moved to Essetir. There. Don't think about it too much.)

HOWEVER!! When he moves to Camelot, he covers it up, because Camelot already hates Bastards (check), Sorcerers (double check) and also Gaels (check again). So to make his life easier, he gives himself a generic Essetirian/Camelot accent, and no one really notices, Maybe he has a bit of a lilt here and there, but people chalk it up to him spending lots of time with a diverse set of people, and/or maybe just being a country bumpkin. The lilt definitely comes out more when he's angry, the angrier he is the stronger it is, but, what the majority of Merlin's friends don’t know, is that they've never really seen him truly angry. Annoyed, frustrated maybe, a little pissed off, but not properly angry. Not for the first few years at least, so again, no one really notices.

Sometimes he rants to himself under his breath in Gaels, more so when he's with Gaius because it's not like the guy doesn't already know, even if he can't actually understand (Gaius does mourn the loss of his heritage sometimes, especially because, when delirious, Merlin's accent comes back full force, and Gaius can't understand a word he's saying).

Anyway. I do have this scenario in my head of some poor page running into the Throne room all "Oh CHRIST, My Lord, there's a woman in the courtyard who claims to have killed Morgause and rescued Morgana!! BUT!!! She says she'll only speak to Myrddin??" And the whole room is in uproar and Merlin just rolls his eyes at them and goes "What does she look like?", at the description he just goes "Oh shit" except in Gaels and runs out. All the gang follow to see him embracing this woman and speaking fast Gaels to her. She's introduced as his sister or an old childhood neighbour/friend or something. She couldn't give less of a shit about Camelot's anti magic laws if she TRIED, and fully admits to defeating the two witches with magic, because she herself is also a witch, and basically dares Arthur to do something abut it whilst Merlin despairs. Once the shock passes, someone, probably Gwaine, just goes "Hey, Merls, what's with the accent?? And the name??" and the woman just raises her eyebrow and goes "Aye, Merls, what's with the accent and the name?" And he has to admit that he's Irish and his real name is Myrddin (I know it's actually Welsh but let’s pretend just for now) and talks in his normal accent and everyone just... blue screens.

At least three times a day for the next few weeks, if not months, he has to explain the "new" accent to friends whom he hasn't spoken to since before the incident. Overall it's very funny, and everyone in Camelot suddenly finds Merlin ten times hotter. Arthur is struggling to cope. Leon openly drools. Gwaine is so wowed he can't even flirt right. Gwen trips over every time he speaks.

His accent is naturally really toned down, from years of hiding it and just being around people who don't have that accent, but it still gets strong when he shouts, and is nigh impossible to understand when he's concussed/drugged/suffering from blood loss/exhausted to the point of delirium. He also starts using words like "aye" to mean yes, and "slán" (the original of Sláinte, meaning good health, or cheers), when he says goodbye, and it's very endearing but also very confusing.

Our man is just so much happier being able to be himself and share his culture with no backlash, because Uther's been gone a while, and Arthur made peace with the Gaels ages ago (Merlin was basically just in too deep to back out then and kept clutching straws until the sister/friend arrived and blew it all wide open). Now he just has to do the same with the magic thing.... But then again!! Sister/friend not giving a fuck has maybe done that already. So. Maybe he's already set?

Anyway. Merlin with an Irish accent. Yes Please Please Please :D

#bbc merlin #colin morgan #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin with an accent #irish merlin #gaels #medieval ireland #gwaine #gwen #guinevere #merlin with a kickass sister as a side plot? #leon #elyan #lancelot #morgana #mordred #percival #merlin headcanon #merlin prompt #bbc merlin prompts #bbc merlin headcanons

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval #history #Ireland #medieval Ireland

[arwendeluhtiene]

'Int én bec/ ro.léic feit/ do rind guip/ glanbuidi/ fo.ceird faíd/ ós Loch Laíg/ lon do chraíb/ charnbuidi.' "The little bird / has whistled/ from point of beak/ bright yellow;/ throws out a cry/ over Loch Laoi,/ a blackbird from branch/ heaped with yellow (blossom)". Watercolour illustration of the titular blackbird of this 9th Century Medieval Old Irish poem (October 2022) 🍀🍃🐤✨ This watercolour appeared in my published article translating this Old Irish poem into Quenya in Estel 99 (Summer 2023 edition of the official magazine of the Spanish Tolkien Society).

✨ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Nyk54N ✨Blogger: http://aeternalswirlingfight.blogspot.com/2023/10/quenya-translation-aiwe-int-en-bec.html

#tolkien #quenya #elvish #old irish #irish #translation #medieval ireland #medieval irish #gaeilge #blackbird #poetry #irish poetry #watercolour painting #watercolours #My art #My works #spanish tolkien society #sociedad tolkien española #ste #painting #traditional art #animal art #bird art #treescape #landscape art #forest painting #landscape painting #int én bec #int en bec #ireland

[happy-chappy-miniatures]

Irish Kern with Bows

Hi again! I've got another update and once again, we know 'em, we love 'em, it's more Kern!

This time I've put together block of skirmishers with bows to act in support of the gallowglass and bonnachts, or independently to harass opponents in hit-and-run attacks!

The kern themselves are the usual mix of Perry and Antediluvian figures. I've included a few more drab léine compared to the bonnachts, given that these would be poorer soldiers, and unlikely to afford the fanciest saffron dye all the time

And here's the block of skirmishers screening an advance for the charging Bonnachts

I hope they've come out ok! For a while I was debating whether to have them blocked in a more dense formation, to mirror the bows-and-bills of the other War of the Roses forces, but eventually decided against it in favor of the skirmishers

#15th century #16th century #ireland #irish #medieval ireland #medieval irish #tudor #tudors #war of the roses #wars of the roses #miniatures #minipainting #perry miniatures #antediluvian miniatures #28mm historicals #28mm historical #28mm wargaming #28mm #wargaming #medieval wargaming #28mm medieval #28mm renaissance #renaissance #medieval

[stairnaheireann]

Medieval Ireland | Inishmurray Monastic Site

Medieval Ireland | Inishmurray Monastic Site

“Saved by its ocean walls from ordinary marauders in former times, and from the wanton tourist of today… Inishmurray has retained a larger number of examples of primitive Irish Art than perhaps any other early Christian settlement in Ireland.” ––William Wakeman, A Survey of the Antiquarian Remains on the Island of Inishmurray, 1893 The first people to settle on what would be known as Inishmurray…

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#Caiseal #Cashel #Christianity #Co. Fermanagh #Co. Sligo #Curing Stones #Cursing Stones #Devenish Island #Inisbofin #Inishmurray Monastic Site #Laisrén mac Decláin #Leachta #Lough Erne #Medieval Ireland #Monks #Rathlin Island #St Colmcille #St. Molaise #Vikings

[nildespirandum]

Two new issues are up!  I missed blogging about this one before, but that gives you a chance to see two chapters of @rauko-art ‘s unassailably beautiful art! 

With that said, please subscribe if you read, it moves us up on whatever algorithm they have, and remember reblogs equal love.

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#at hel's edge #webtoon #webtoon canvas #myth loki #vikings #medieval ireland

[thejoyofseax]

Reconstruction of pre-Norman Irish Cookery

One of my long-term projects is a reconstruction of pre-Norman Irish cuisine. This is not an easy thing; there are no recipes, and essentially no surviving traditions (the arrival of the potato basically wiped out everything that came before it). The sources are some law texts, which deal in part with agriculture, some stories, which mention feasts and more agriculture and cattle theft, some poems, which use food as allegory and reference, and some archaeology and archaeobotany.

The question of what was eaten is the easy end, and I've mostly settled that. The limitations of how it was cooked are also relatively clear. The actual dishes that were cooked are in no way clear, and verge over into purest speculation - and that's ok. "Plausible" is the best we can do, and it shouldn't stop us from exploring the possible cuisine.

This post is going to serve as a sort of hub for my pre-Norman Irish food stuff, and I'll plug in links as I go.

Discussion

Pre-Norman Irish Food: Evidence & Ingredients

Pre-Norman Irish Food: Cooking Methods

Recipes

Sigginstown Pottage

#pre-norman irish cuisine #pre-norman irish food #irish medieval food #medieval food #sca #medieval cookery #medieval ireland #pre-norman ireland #viking ireland #norse ireland

[atlantic-riona]

no joke this is exactly what I look like when I discover new information about medieval Ireland

#like I'm about to hear all the latest gossip #except it's me settling down with an academic text #me: omg bestie spill the tea #the tea: *obscure information about the minutiae of daily life in a medieval Irish monastery* #this is also the expression I have when academics start fighting in their respective books/articles #academics from the late 1800s/early 1900s were not afraid to throw hands #actually this is just my expression when reading history books in general 😂😂😂 #medieval ireland #history #and just in case those tags don't stick bc tumblr hates me #*deep sigh* #irish mythology #I swear #you pick ONE tag and are cursed with it forever afterwards

[archaeoethnologica]

Fosterage na Irlanda Medieval - Livro

O'Donnell, T. (2020): Fosterage in Medieval Ireland: An Emotional History, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam ISBN: 978 94 6298 941 2 DOI: 10.1515/9789048541973

Sinopse: O fosterage era uma característica central da sociedade irlandesa medieval, mas a prática generalizada de enviar crianças para outra família para serem cuidadas até atingirem a idade adulta é um tópico surpreendentemente negligenciado. Onde foi discutido, o acolhimento é geralmente conceituado e tratado como uma instituição puramente legal ...

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#institutions #Law #Kinship #Simbolic Kinship #Ireland #Medieval Ireland #Celtic Studies #Irish text

[lionofchaeronea]

Hellelil and Hildebrand (The Meeting on the Turret Stairs), Frederic William Burton, 1864

#art #art history #Frederic William Burton #historical painting #Middle Ages #medievalism #Irish art #19th century art #Victorian period #Victorian art #watercolor #gouache #watercolor on paper #National Gallery of Ireland

[irisharchaeology]

The ruins of a medieval church at Grange, Co. Wexford, Ireland

#Ireland #church #ruins #medieval

[oldcurrencyexchange]

Irish Coin Daily: John (as King of Ireland) Silver Penny, Mint: Dublin, Moneyer: Johan

Irish Coin Daily: John (as King of Ireland) Silver Penny, Mint: Dublin, Moneyer: Johan

Date: c.1208/9-1216 John (as King, 1199-1216), Third coinage, Penny, Dublin, Johan, iohan on dive, pellet on tip of the third ray, 1.58g Description: John as King England & Ireland, Silver Penny. Slightly weak of strike and with some doubling on the reverse. Struck by an extremely rare moneyer (Johan). Mint: Dublin Moneyer: Johan of Dublin Weight: 1.58 g References: SCBI Ulster, pl. XVI, 19,…

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#coin collecting #Dublin mint #halfpenny #hammered #iohan on dive #johan of dublin #king john #limerick #medieval #Medieval Ireland #numismatic #rare #rare irish coins #silver #silver halfpenny #Hammered Coinage #John as King of Ireland #numismatics #rare coin

[medievalistsnet]

#medieval manuscripts #medieval ireland #Ireland

[visitheworld]

Cahir Castle / Ireland (by Luis de Morais).

#Eire #europe #ireland #visitireland #wanderlust #cahir castle #bucketlist #placestosee #castles #medieval #architecture #irlande

[happy-chappy-miniatures]

Mounted Irish Earl

Hi again!

Another Irish update! This time I wanted to attempt some figures to represent some Irish commanders on horseback, particularly with Never Mind the Billhooks' Deluxe edition giving rules for Irish cavalry!

Unfortunately finding miniatures to represent late-medieval/renaissance Irish cavalry and having them scale properly with the Perry Irish range is pretty difficult! Which meant going in to this would need some thought about converting existing figures to look the part of an Irish Earl and a mailed standard bearer to accompany him Choosing figures as bases to start the conversions was a bit of a task! I'm not hugely confident in my sculpting abilities, so I wanted to try to focus on a few key points to have the figures at least be visually recognisable without necessarily needing me to sculpt on large areas of mail or detailed clothes.

For the Earl, I visually based his appearance on the "Irish Chieftain" depicted in a few of the woodcuts in The Image of Irelande. It is worth pointing out that the book is very much a piece of Tudor English propaganda, intending to demonise the Irish and promote the English forces in Ireland, so it should be taken with a grain of salt! But in the absence of many other sources, it made for a good start

In the woodcuts, the noble ( has an interesting segmented helmet (with a plume), so that was something I definitely wanted to include. He's also wearing an interesting outfit, initially I thought it was some sort of brigandine or studded jack, but it seems to be more consistent with civilian doublets in other 16th century portraits rather than any kind of armour. Finally, as shown in the first image, the chief has a very impressive cloak (or brat), with a thick fur-like fringe, which was another definite requirement for me to include!

For the Brat, the Gaelic Attire Website (http://gaelicattire.com/brat.htm) provides a very useful explanation of its construction, and some great reproductions (which have made great reference images!). The fringes themselves appear to have been made of wool (occasionally styled to look like fur), and for the wealthy this would have been dyed in a variety of colours

With that in mind as a design direction, I decided to use one of the Perry Sudanese commanders as a base figure, given his pose, and his excellent cloak to make a base for the brat:

And from there, I gave him a head-swap for one of the Gallowglass figures to try and match the interesting helmet shown in the woodcuts, and added a plume to it. Then, with some filing down of the body and legs, I sculpted on a Tudor doublet and boots, and then added a fringe to the cloak to convert it into an Irish Brat

In terms of colours, I went with a copy of the Brat in Dürer's depiction of Gallowglass in the early 16th century, with the cloak itself being a deep red/maroon/pink, and the fringe being a bright yellow

The standard bearer was a bit of a simpler conversion, seeing as my design philosophy for him was more straightforward. I wanted him to essentially look like a mounted Gallowglass, so the rider was based on a Victrix Norman, with his head swapped for one of the Perry Gallowglass, and a The Assault Group targe added in place of the Norman shield.

The horse was a little more involved, seeing as the Irish cavalry of the 16th century notably did not use stirrups or saddles, instead opting for what appears to be more of a cushion strapped to the horse. Given that information, I trimmed the saddle off of the horse, and used green stuff to sculpt on the quilted cushion (which helped mask the width difference between the Victrix legs and the Perry horse too!)

And finally to round off the whole base, I added an Irish wolfhound from Footsore Miniatures

Currently I only have flags for Kildare and Desmond put together, but the standard bearer's flags are detachable, so they can be easily swapped out for any other Gaelic or Anglo-Irish lords (once I get the flags made!)

And here's the Earl of Kildare riding alongside a band of kern

#28mm #28mm wargaming #28mm historical #28mm historicals #15th century #16th century #irish #ireland #medieval irish #medieval ireland #kildare #desmond #fitzgerald #tudor #tudors #war of the roses #wars of the roses #miniatures #minipainting #wargaming #medieval #renaissance #28mm medieval #28mm renaissance #perry miniatures #victrix miniatures