Mars Braciaca (RIB 278) at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

• Authors: Andrew Breeze

Abstracts

EN

Braciaca, on an altar to Mars at Haddon Hall (near Bakewell, in the north Midlands of England), has been related to Welsh brag 'malt' and explained as 'he of (divine) intoxication'. Yet this is hard to see, and a new explanation from Welsh bragad 'army, host; battle' seems preferable. It ts the God of War better than 'malt' does (a product more apt for Bacchus than Mars). If so, Braciaca 'of the hosts' will be one of many terms from Roman Britain that Welsh (and related languages) can explain. To show this, we rst consider Celtic attitudes to Mars, and then go on to brag and its cognates.

Keywords

EN

Mars; Celtic Languages; Welsh; Roman Britain; Inscriptions

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 103-111

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Andrew Breeze

• University of Navarra, Pamplona (Spain)

• https://orcid.org/0000000334297191

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Identifiers

DOI

10.54515/lcp.2022.1.103-111

Biblioteka Nauki

2137329