Historic England. "Church of St Bega (1332957)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 March 2014. At the granting of the first charter of the Benedictine priory, one of the witnesses was Gillebecoc; meaning devotee of Beghoc, indicating a cult dedicated to Bega was already in existence. [4] The writer of the Life relates that St Bega was given a bracelet in Ireland by a heavenly being, which she left behind in St Bees when she travelled to Northumberland. It was described as having a holy cross upon it, which fits a style of the 9th and 10th centuries. The bracelet is mentioned several times in the charters of St Bees Priory; one instance is in the middle of the 13th century, when an oath was taken by John of Hale "having touched the sacred things ... and upon the bracelet of St Bega". [4] An account roll from as late as 1516/1517 records offerings of 67s. 9d to the bracelet of St Bega; so the cult and the relic were still a going concern at that late time. [4] Veneration [ edit ] The earliest representation of what scholars name the "courtly" branch of the Tristan legend is in the work of Thomas of Britain, dating from 1173. Unfortunately, only ten fragments of his Tristan poem survived, compiled from six manuscripts. Of these six manuscripts, the ones in Turin and Strasbourg are now lost, leaving two in Oxford, one in Cambridge, and one in Carlisle. [7] In his text, Thomas names another trouvère who also sang of Tristan, though no manuscripts of this earlier version have been discovered. There is also a passage describing Iseult writing a short lai out of grief. This information sheds light on the development of an unrelated legend concerning the death of a prominent troubadour and the composition of lais by noblewomen of the 12th century.

Deriving from the Irish word bronach, meaning sad or sorrowful, the name Bronagh is, in fact, a beautiful name for a baby girl. The Irish form of the anglicised Louisa, Laoise truly does have a royal feel to it. 16. Ailbhe – meaning noble or bright

Aoife MacMurrough (c. 1145 – 1188, Irish: Aoife Nic Mhurchada), also known as Eva of Leinster, was an Irish noblewoman, Princess of Leinster and Countess of Pembroke. She was the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (c. 1110 – 1171) ( Irish: Diarmait Mac Murchada), King of Leinster, and his second wife, Mór Ní Tuathail or Mor O'Toole (c. 1114 – 1191), and a niece of Archbishop of Dublin St Lawrence O'Toole. In about 1400 it was recorded that St Bega's day was celebrated 'in albs' (for a lesser saint) at the mother house of St Mary's Abbey, York. A fifteenth-century Book of Hours in the Bodleian Library from St Mary's records the day as 7 November. [4] Since this discovery in the late 20th century, St Bega's day has been celebrated in St Bees on this date. [14] Hymn to St Bega [ edit ]

A well-known figure with the name is Saint Bronagh, a 6 th-century saint and reputed founder of Kilbroney. 10. Ciara – a Co. Tipperary saint Thomas Hardy published his one-act play The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse in 1923. [33] Rutland Boughton's 1924 opera The Queen of Cornwall was based on Thomas Hardy's play.Various art forms from the medieval era represented Tristan's story, from ivory mirror cases to the 13th-century Sicilian Tristan Quilt. In addition, many literary versions are illuminated with miniatures. The legend also became a popular subject for Romanticist painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The current O'Conor Don has dropped the style The O'Conor Don, Prince of Connacht used by his father, considering O'Conor Don to be "historically grand enough by itself". Curley, p. 155 The parish church of Bassenthwaite, Cumbria is dedicated to St Bega. It was built around 950AD and is still used for regular services and weddings; it is a grade II* listed building. [10] [11] The name of the village Kirkeby Becok used in the charters of St Bees Priory from the times of Henry II and Richard I, and the phraseology of the early charters indicates a pre-Norman church at St Bees dedicated to St Bega. [7]

Curley, Walter J.P., Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and their Families. Dublin: Lilliput Press. 2004. Foreword by Charles Lysaght. Early French Tristan Poems", from Norris J. Lacy (editor), Arthurian Archives, Cambridge, England; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 1998. ISBN 0-8240-4034-1 Scholars have given much attention to possible Irish antecedents to the Tristan legend. An ill-fated love triangle is featured in several Irish works, most notably in Tóraigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinne ( The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne). In this literary work, the aging Fionn mac Cumhaill is to marry the young princess, Gráinne. At the betrothal ceremony, she falls in love with Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, one of Fionn's most trusted warriors. Gráinne gives a sleeping potion to all present but Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and she convinces him to elope with her. Fianna pursues the fugitive lovers across Ireland. In ancient Ireland, Grainne was the goddess of the grain or harvest. This significant figure is the perfect goddess to name your baby girl after.

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The Last Kingdom' Beautifully Blends Fact with Fiction (SPOILERS)". Distractify . Retrieved 2021-01-22. The story has had a lasting impact on Western culture. Its different versions exist in many European texts in various languages from the Middle Ages. The earliest instances take two primary forms: the courtly and common branches, associated with the 12th-century poems of Thomas of Britain and Béroul, the latter believed to reflect a now-lost original version. A subsequent version emerged in the 13th century in the wake of the greatly expanded Prose Tristan, merging Tristan's romance with the legend of King Arthur. Finally, after the revived interest in the medieval era in the 19th century under the influence of Romantic nationalism, the story has continued to be popular in the modern era, notably Wagner's operatic adaptation.