Fairy Cube and other such stuff

I just spent the last two days doing all this "research" so I can translate and properly understand what Fairy Cube is all about....

And I think I might just need to add "self-torture" to my list of favourite pastimes, or something =___=;;;;

Carmen, guess what? Diarmuid is an Irish name (well, Gaelic actually, but I still have to figure out the difference between Nordic, Gaelic, Celtic and other such "ics") meaning "envy free". And apparently he is a "legendary Irish hero who eloped with Grania, who was promised to Finn MacCool". It was all nice up until the "MacCool" bit. Somehow I was struck with the horrible image of a certain yellow-suited clown holding up a take-away coke cup and saying "MacDonalds, the new Cool."

Diarmuid and Finn, ne! And dig this, Fionn means "fair" in Gaelic. I'm trying to decide whether "avar" means "land" or I'm just reading too much into Sara Douglass' references.

Now, I'm sort of also losing track of names here, but Darren is also Gaelic for "little great one". But the name's Darien huh...

Back to Fairy Cube: there's a lot of interesting trivia to be found!

The most obvious one is Ainsel, Scottish for own sel', a little fairy who even in the original folklore had tremendous power.

Ian (main guy) really likes the flower "bluebell", which is said to house fairies, and Rin means "bell".

I'm yet to find out what "apricot" and "maple" has to do in all this ==;