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--- Quote from: Ms Duck on January 11, 2013, 06:48:42 PM ---I was. just pointing out that Mab(shakespeare) != Mab (butcher). Mab (butcher) much more related to Mab (original)
Serack, do you have the woj where someone asks Jim about the bill the bard Mab?
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I think you missed my EDIT of the post:
--- Quote ---EDIT: In Cold Days (click to show/hide)Mab says she was mortal once. This can be explained by my theory that the Little Folk are changelings who Chose when they were children (Justification:
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The wikipedia entry on Mab says she was first mentioned by Shakespeare. Do you know where she was mentioned before that?
mithrandirthewhite:
Mab is an alternate name for an aspect of the Morrigan.
http://voices.yahoo.com/the-morrigan-celtic-goddess-battle-death-fate-and-8533559.html?cat=37
But since Celti mythology ties more knots than the Summers Family Tree who truly knows anymore?
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: 123456789blaaa on January 11, 2013, 07:23:09 PM ---I think you missed my EDIT of the post:
The wikipedia entry on Mab says she was first mentioned by Shakespeare. Do you know where she was mentioned before that?
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the name is a more modern spelling of maeb, which is also the name for morgawse
shes from 1st century bc celtic myhtology, the goddess of war and magic; in some variants shes a part of the morrigan
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Ms Duck on January 11, 2013, 07:45:45 PM ---the name is a more modern spelling of maeb, which is also the name for morgawse
shes from 1st century bc celtic myhtology, the goddess of war and magic; in some variants shes a part of the morrigan
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They all come from old Irish Medb, the queen of Connaught.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb
I always thought it funny that Mab's daughter Maeve just had a more modern version of her own name.
Ms Duck:
--- Quote from: Arjan on January 11, 2013, 07:53:22 PM ---They all come from old Irish Medb, the queen of Connaught.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medb
I always thought it funny that Mab's daughter Maeve just had a more modern version of her own name.
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they are two sepperate entities with simillar names in the mythology; one is a goddess, the other legendary queen
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