At 06:37 PM 2/26/96 +0000, you wrote:
 
   <   Lancelot du Lac = Lug Lamhcalad          OK, well first of all I can't see how the name Lug becomes of the lake,different spot in the name, one at the end the other at the beginning, if Lug were the name they were trying to modernise then it would seemreasonable to expect this in the name at least rather than in the epithet.>
 
Isn't Llyn more proper for "lake," at least in Cymraeg...
 
>Secondly; Lug was the sun-god of the Celts>
 
I could almost see Llew Llaw Gyffes being a partial equivalent to Lancelot, barring the linguistic stretching... but not Lugh Llam Fada- they are two quite different characters... their stories are not in any stretch of the imagination the same...
 
< 'mh' in Irish correspond to the English letter 'v' as far as sound is concerned, >
 
Very Good Point (and is it not the aspiration of f ?? f  - mh)
 
As you can see I generally agree with this rebuttal.
 
Robert Anders
A'm swynsei Math, Cyn bum diaered..."
        I had been marked by kind, before I became immortal...
 
                Taliesin, in the Hanes Taliesen
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        "It is Mor Cylch, the maze of life,' Tegid told me. 'It is trodden in darkness with just enough light to see the next step or two ahead, but not more. At each turn the soul must decide whether to journey on or whether to go back the way it came.'
        'What if the soul does not journey one?  What if it chooses to go back the way it came?'
        'Stagnation and death,' Tegid replied with mild vehemence.  He seemed irritated that anyone would consider retreating."
 
                from The Paradise War, by Stephen R. Lawhead
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