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Post by Blackbird on Feb 15, 2006 10:50:00 GMT -1
So here it is - the thread for straightforward questions and answers.
The questions should have answers that can be found relatively easily, while the 'Riddle Me This' thread remains for more obscure facts and gems of word-craft.
So - I'll start us off:
In which area did the Trinovantes live? And what was the name of their exiled king?
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Post by Brochfael on Feb 18, 2006 11:21:40 GMT -1
As I remember it they lived in the Middlesex/Essex area north of the Thames The exiled king was (I think) Verica or Bericos
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Post by Blackbird on Feb 18, 2006 14:41:12 GMT -1
The area is right - but that's not the name I'm looking for...
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Post by littleraven on Feb 19, 2006 11:26:14 GMT -1
Adminius, brother of Caradoc and Togidubnus?
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Post by Blackbird on Feb 20, 2006 13:46:49 GMT -1
nope
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Post by velnita on Feb 20, 2006 22:02:41 GMT -1
North of the Thames in the Essex area. Mandubracius fled/was exiled after the murder of his father by Cassivellaunus. After Caesar defeated Cassivellaunus, Mandubracius was restored to kingship. I think. Maybe. I wish I knew how to pronounce these names so next time I will remember this.
Velnita
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Post by Blackbird on Feb 21, 2006 14:49:26 GMT -1
*applause* yes, Mandubracius was the bloke and the area is also correct. The torc of victory passes to you
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Post by velnita on Feb 21, 2006 15:21:54 GMT -1
I've always wanted a torc. After Venutius divorced Cartimandua, who did she take as her lover?
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Post by Brochfael on Feb 27, 2006 8:37:34 GMT -1
Wasn't it his charioteer? Not sure if he was ever named in the writings of the time
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Post by velnita on Mar 1, 2006 12:56:06 GMT -1
She seems to have been attracted to men whose names started with a "V".
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Post by beithann on Mar 3, 2006 14:43:54 GMT -1
Vellocatus - she was a bit of a goer wasn't she? ;D
Beith
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Post by velnita on Mar 4, 2006 12:14:06 GMT -1
Yeah!!! Vellocatus is was. The hard-earned Torc of Victory passes to you.
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Post by beithann on Mar 5, 2006 21:48:26 GMT -1
Ooooh Ta!! Now I have got to think of a question that I know the answer to OK - name 3 of the Roman Goddesses that the Romans linked Brigantia with
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Post by tenar on Mar 7, 2006 9:41:58 GMT -1
I found Minerva, and Victory, but I'm stumped on the last one
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Post by beithann on Mar 9, 2006 20:15:58 GMT -1
Well - I think I can pass on the victory torc to you - the other one was Caelestis
There have been inscriptions to her as Minerva Brigantia, Victoria Brigantia, Caelestis Brigantia and Nymphea Brigantia (which makes her Goddess of Water)
Beith
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Post by tenar on Mar 13, 2006 20:23:47 GMT -1
I've never heard of Caelestis before-what does the name mean? I finally thought of a question, an easy one...name two gods that appear with a ram-horned snake
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Post by beithann on Mar 14, 2006 22:43:42 GMT -1
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Post by Blackbird on Mar 20, 2006 20:48:21 GMT -1
Two gods that appear with a ram horned snake... I give you Mars, who is depicted with two ram-headed snakes in a bronze from Wiltshire and the un-named antlered god, often assumed to be 'Cernunnos' from a well in Haute-Marne, France, showing a god holding a vessel, from which two ram-headed snakes are drinking.
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Post by tenar on Mar 21, 2006 11:39:27 GMT -1
The shiny torc of victory passes to you
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