Tuesday, 11 June 2019

BEITHIR - ANCIENT GAELIC CREATURE

In modern Gaelic beithir can mean a bear.  Gaelic th is pronounced h.  It was sometimes used more vaguely to mean a wild animal.  In Ireland it was used figuratively to mean a champion warrior.  It has, however, been used in Scottish Gaelic to mean another creature.

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