Talk:brehon

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 * brehon- appears in Beowulf "the brehon handed him a hilted weapon" on line 1457, something like an Early Irish Political figure see Early Irish Law--Dictionman 22:32, 13 February 2009 (UTC) &mdash; Capitalisation? The Wikipedia page uses a capital B, as does this Irish Society article. Wikipedia also says it is "an Anglicisation of breitheamh (earlier brithem), the Irish word for a judge." [My bold.] The Irish Society article prefers "lawgiver". Pingku 07:33, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I may stand corrected if I remember my history correctly brehons were judges in Celtic societies. Other related terms include rí: (the king), tuath: (his "dominion" or whatever you will call it), Aos Dána: (wise men, sometimes included women. This included the brehons along with filí: [poets, singular file:], druids and bards), deirbhfine: (royal family from which the king was chosen from) 50 Xylophone Players talk 13:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)