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De keltiska namnen är hämtade från myter och legender, sagor och verklighet som gestaltar den historiska tid vi känner som keltisk. Den varade från till

F-kullen heter FAIRY, för under keltisk tid levde man med féerna, med trollkarlarna och drakarna.

FAIRY

fairy, in folklore, one of a variety of supernatural beings endowed with the powers of magic and enchantment. Belief in fairies has existed from earliest times, and literatures all over the world have tales of fairies and their relations with humans. Some Christians have said that fairies were the ancestors of the ancient pagan gods, who, having been replaced by newer deities, were therefore hostile. Others thought that fairies were nature deities, similar to the Greek nymphs nymph (nimf) , in Greek mythology, female divinity associated with various natural objects.
..... Click the link for more information. . Still others identified fairies with the souls of the dead, particularly the unbaptized, or with fallen angels angel (an`j?l) , [Gr.,=messenger], bodiless, immortal spirit, limited in knowledge and power, accepted in the traditional belief of
..... Click the link for more information. . Among their many guises, fairies have been described as tiny, wizen-faced old men, like the Irish leprechaun leprechaun (lep`r?kon) , Irish fairy represented as a tiny old man.
..... Click the link for more information. ; as beautiful enchantresses who wooed men to their deaths, like Morgan le Fay and the Lorelei Lorelei (lôr`?li, Ger. lo`r?li) , cliff, 433 ft (132 m) high, on the right bank of the Rhine River, near St.
..... Click the link for more information. ; and as hideous, man-eating giants, like the ogre.

A fairy (also fay , fey , faery , faerie ; collectively, "fae", wee folk , good folk , people of peace , fair folk , and other euphemisms) [ 1 ] is a type of mythological being or legendary creature , a form of spirit , often described as metaphysical , supernatural or preternatural .

The word fairy derives from the term fae of medieval Western European ( Old French , from Latin fata : Fate) folklore and romance, one famous example being Morgan le Fay ('Morgan of the Fae'). "Fae-ery" was therefore everything that appertains to the "fae", and so the land of "fae", all the "fae". Finally the word replaced its original and one could speak of "a faery or fairy", though the word fey is still used as an adjective or to refer to the word fairy as a plural.

Fairies resemble various beings of other mythologies , though even folklore that uses the term fairy offers many definitions. Sometimes the term describes any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes : at other times, the term only describes a specific type of more ethereal creature. [ 2 ]

FELIX

Saint Felec or Felix of Cornwall was an obscure 5th or 6th century British saint active in the country's south-western peninsula. Saint Felix was said to have had the miraculous gift of being able to communicate with lions, cats, and other feline creatures. The church at Phillack , near Hayle is dedicated to Saint Felec (as he appears in a 10th century Vatican codex). Later generations mistook him for the females Saint Felicity (alias Felicitas) and Saint Piala. His feast day is November 20 .

Felec could be equated with Felix, a supposed early king of either Cornwall or Lyonesse according to the Prose Tristan (c. 1235) and later Italian Arthurian romances, but this reference is very late. The character is probably mythical, having been confused with the 7th century Saint Felix of Burgundy . Like Lyonesse, Dunwich , the centre of his diocese, was inundated by the sea.

FERGUS

Warrior king in the Ulster cycle of Gaelic literature. In The Cattle Raid of Cooley , Fergus, an exile from Ulster, recalls the deeds of the young Cú Chulainn . Another story tells of the revelation of the Táin in the 7th century by the ghost of Fergus. Fergus is also the subject of poems by William Butler Yeats . He is said to have been shipwrecked off the coast of Northern Ireland c. AD 320, at the place known as Carrickfergus (“rock of Fergus”).

Fergus Dubdétach ("black-tooth") was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a king of the Ulaid who was briefly High King of Ireland . He took the High Kingship after his predecessor, Lugaid mac Con , was expelled from Tara by Cormac mac Airt and killed in Munster by Cormac's poet Ferches mac Commáin. Fergus and his two brothers, Fergus Caisfhiachlach ("rough-tooth") and Fergus Foltlebair ("long-hair"), then expelled Cormac to Connacht and Fergus took the throne. He ruled for a year, before he was defeated by Cormac, with the assistance of Tadg mac Céin and Lugaid Láma, in the Battle of Crinna.

FENICE

engelsk form

av Fenix

Fenix (av grekiskans phoinix, purpurfärgad; också Fågel Fenix ) är en mytisk fågel med en rad legender från olika kulturer förknippade med sig. Även i keltisk kultur finns denna mystiska fågeln, som ger löften om evigt liv genom återuppståndelse.

Fenix lär vart femhundrade år komma från Arabien till staden Heliopolis i Egypten för att begrava sin faders lik i ett ägg av myrra. När Fenix är nära att dö bygger den ett bo runt sig och dör där i. Sedan kommer dess ättling ut ur boet i form av en mask. Varianter på denna myt är att Fenix brinner upp då den dör och uppstår som en mask ur askan. Masken växer sedan till en ny fågel.

I sin bok Om fåglarna , som skrevs under det första århundradet efter Kristus, skriver Plinius d.ä. att Fenix (phoenix) är stor som en örn och har en gyllene ring om halsen. Att dess kropp är purpurfärgad medan stjärten är blå med rosa prickar. Den har tofsar på halsen och en fjäderplym på huvudet. Plinius d.ä. fortsätter sedan att beskriva fågeln men tillägger att den måhända tillhör fabeln.

I Egypten kallades en liknande mytisk fågel för Benu och legender som liknar den om Fenix återfinns även i Kina . Under kristnandet av Rom blev Fenix en symbol för den eviga kristenheten och under medeltiden och renässansen ingick den i många europeiska berättelser om österlandet och avbildades flitigt.

Den kinesiska mytologiska fågeln fenghuang översätts rutinmässigt till fenix även om de två fåglarna inte torde vara närmare släkt.

Fenix har blivit en metafor för återuppståndelse

FLORIE

Ett vackert namn på F, som passade bra till de andra namnen i kullen.

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