{"id":391,"date":"2008-05-19T14:07:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-05-19T14:07:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:07:25","slug":"myrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/2008\/05\/19\/myrea\/","title":{"rendered":"Myrea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Myrea\"<\/a>In December 2001 Christopher Wilkinson wrote to me from Canada to offer me an explanation for my name Myrea (pronounced incidentally as Maria). Seven years have passed and I have never received a better explanation. I took a look here today<\/a> and still draw a blank, certainly it would appear to originate from Celtic Ireland. Yes I have come across one or two others christened Myrea, we all share the same origination problem. There is a character Myrea in a role playing game, as well as a star in a distant constellation. Now with millions more using the web I get asked the question often maybe there is someone out there who may offer up an alternative suggestion than Christopher did all those years ago. I would be pleased to hear from you as I dance in the sea,<\/p>\n

Myrea<\/p>\n

From Christopher Wilkinson Dec 2001<\/p>\n

If I’m not mistaken, Myrea comes from the Greek root for the same word that in french is Mer, or “the sea,” with the feminine singular nominalizer –“ea” added. Woman of the Sea??
\nOne related name I know is Prelea. Prel\/ea.
\nLots of these names found their way into Irish Celtic and Gaelic areas, probably in the course of the shipping\/trade between Scandanavia (Vikings\/norsemen), the British Isles, and then down around Gibraltar to the ports of Greece and Italy, Alexandria, etc.<\/p>\n

If I had the time to look deep
\nThrough the books of lore
\nI know I would look first for King Neptune
\nAnd find the Sea Queen’s name
\nThink of the Mer, the Myr, and so
\nThe Mermaid is too simple for the name, me thinks it well,
\nAnd the trident sea lord with his moon crown glowing
\nWould be the direction I’d seek the knowing I fear there might be confusion where
\nThe myrtle groves are brought to bear
\nBut the myrtle is the herb of the moon
\nAnd the moon is the mistress of the sea
\nAnd those wise in the ways of nature
\nWould know these things well
\nDo tell,
\nWhence came thee
\nAnd whither thy name and blood
\nFor thence are the secrets of these name
\nWhere the Gaul and the Greek together are bonded in blood
\nFrom a time long long before
\nThe Roman Gaulish war
\nAnd the peoples of the moors held long the ancient lore
\nAnd the names of things from long before
\nThe egret “y” is telling If it’s not a new-age spelling
\nFor the mer was the myr and the linn was the lyn
\nAnd so go the names of middle English to now,
\nWhile the Greek grammar endings were held for the few
\nWith learning, or with blood ties old
\nTo the Mediterranean fold
\nYour name is probably the sea queen, the moon,
\nThe mistress of the wax and waning of the light of the night
\nAnd so I might find told If I had the time
\nTo check these old books of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December 2001 Christopher Wilkinson wrote to me from Canada to offer me an explanation for my name Myrea (pronounced incidentally as Maria). Seven years have passed and I have never received a better explanation. I took a look here today and still draw a blank, certainly it would appear to originate from Celtic Ireland. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5,4],"tags":[73,66,69,72,71,65,68,67,70,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fairiesworld.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}