Lanista 1 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 So wiki says that Boudicca's daughters were called Heanua and Lannosea. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_the_names_of_Queen_Boudica's_daughters But a google on the names doesn't dig up any classical references...what do we reckon. The answer above must have come from somewhere - I'm wondering what the source is. Can any Romano-British experts help? Cheers Russ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GhostOfClayton 25 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 If they were going to be anywhere, surely they would be in 'Annals'. You can bet your bottom dollar that Tacitus doesn't actually mention them there, and so at some stage, someone's written a semi-fictional account requiring the naming of names, and chosen those two. Someone (from that fictional work) has then taken it as fact. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lanista 1 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 Nice one, GoC - that's what I kind of figured. I'll check out Tacitus though, just to make sure. Thanks man. Cheers Russ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Melvadius 4 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 The worrying aspect of this is that if you Google the names the earliest datable reference seems to be from 12 Jan 2010 in Yahoo Answers which claims to have found the names on a website. I suspect that the 'real' source is a Teen literary magazine which has a 3 part story propounding these names that classifies itself as 'Teen Ink: magazine, website & books written by teens since 1989'..... Oh boy what a super-duper literary source that turns out to be! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lanista 1 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 As long as I don't have the wrong names in my script, I'm happy *lol* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GhostOfClayton 25 Report post Posted February 7, 2011 You could make up a couple of names yourself, and trace their growth and movement through cyberspace using Google. 20 years down the line, they could be the de facto standard believed by all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lanista 1 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 I went for Andraste for the main one. The other one I'll probably use Lannosea for the younger one now, though. You guys at UNRV are legends, by the way. Cheers Russ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Melvadius 4 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 Please don't compound this fallicy on Wiki Answers by using names that have already been used in fiction. The more different names circulating the better - apart from anything else it can lead to years of arguments in the next editions of Trivial Pursuit Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lanista 1 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 Technically, it might not be a fallacy. What are the odds on two correct guesses by Teen:INK Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Melvadius 4 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 I would have thought only marginally different if at all from one correct guess - how do you compute vanishingly small? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viggen 95 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 They are called "Noclue" and "Outofthinair" ...i just hope that people that search for that find this forum thread, you shall not trust answers.com, yahoo.answer etc... cheers viggen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lanista 1 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 Is the first one pronounced "Nok-u-lay" and the second "Out-auf-then-ar" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viggen 95 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 ...there you go in 500 years they will reference Dio Cassius, Tacitus and Lanista to this topic, today however, this is all we have... cheers viggen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lanista 1 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 Cheers for the linkage, Vig Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maty 26 Report post Posted February 8, 2011 Andraste was a Celtic war-goddess, so I doubt that Boudicca would choose that name for her daughter. As far as I know the Celts, like the Romans, did not normally name their kids after gods. (Though oddly enough both gladiators and prostitutes sometimes used divine pseudonyms.) Not only do we not know the names of Boudicca's daughters, but the name Boudicca itself might mean something like 'priestess of the goddess' and not be the lady's name but her job description. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites