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Cerys Cairns
Cerys is a Welsh feminine given name. It is a variant of Carys. Cerys may refer to: * Cerys Hale (born 1995), Welsh rugby union player * Cerys Matthews Cerys Elizabeth Matthews (; born 11 April 1969) is a Welsh singer, songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She was a founding member of Welsh rock band Catatonia and a leading figure in the " Cool Cymru" movement of the late 1990s. Matthews now ... (born 1971), Welsh singer and songwriter * Cerys an Craite, a fictional character in the video game '' The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'' (2015) Notes and references {{given name, cat=feminine given names Welsh feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carys
Carys is a Welsh feminine given name, formed from the stem of the Welsh m word ''caru'', "to love" (''cf.'' third person '' câr'' "beloved friend" or "precious"), and the suffix ''-ys'', found in such names as '' Dilys'', '' Gladys'', '' Glenys'' and '' Nerys''. This is comparable to the similar name ''Cheryl'' which like Carys also appeared circa 1900 and is a combination of ''Cherie'' (The French form of '' Cara'' which means "precious" in Latin and is cognate to Welsh "câr") and the ''+yl'' suffix common in trendy early 20th century names such as Meryl and Beryl. Famous bearers of the name include: * Carys Bannister (1935–2010), British neurosurgeon * Carys Davies, British novelist and short story writer * Carys Hawkins (born 1988), Welsh football player * Carys Parry (born 1981), Welsh hammer thrower * Carys Phillips (born 1992), Welsh rugby union player * Carys Zeta Douglas (born 2003), daughter of Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and American actor Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerys Hale
Cerys Hale (born 4 April 1993) is a Welsh Rugby Union professional player who plays prop for the Wales women's national rugby union team and Gloucester-Hartpury. She made her debut for Wales in 2016 and represented them at the 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship. Club career Hale started playing rugby at the age of 11 with the Newport High School Old Boys, remaining with the club until she was 18. During this time she also played for WRU regional team, the Dragons. Between 2016 and 2018 Hale played prop for Pontyclun RFC, before moving to her current club, Gloucester-Hartpury. International career Hale was called up to the Wales women's squad for both the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup and the 2014 Women's Six Nations Championship, but didn't gain any game time for either. She was the only member of the Wales squad not to gain any game time during the World Cup tournament and was not selected for the 2015 Women's Six Nations Championship. Missing out on these opport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerys Matthews
Cerys Elizabeth Matthews (; born 11 April 1969) is a Welsh singer, songwriter, author, and broadcaster. She was a founding member of Welsh rock band Catatonia and a leading figure in the " Cool Cymru" movement of the late 1990s. Matthews now hosts a weekly music show on BBC Radio 6 Music, a weekly blues show on BBC Radio 2, and a weekly show on BBC Radio 4, ''Add To Playlist'', which won the Prix Italia and Prix Europa 2022. She also makes documentaries for television and radio and was a roving reporter for ''The One Show''. She founded "The Good Life Experience", a festival of culture and the great outdoors in Flintshire in 2014, and is author of ''Hook, Line and Singer'', published by Penguin Books, and children's stories ''Tales from the Deep'' and ''Gelert, A Man's Best Friend'', published by Gomer. Matthews' illustrated version of Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' was published, in November 2022, by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. People educated at Bryanston School Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif occurring across various northern, western and eastern European societies, appearing in the religions of the Germans, Celts, and Slavs (motif E501 per Thompson). Wild Hunts typically involve a chase led by a mythological figure escorted by a ghostly or supernatural group of hunters engaged in pursuit. The leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Odin in Germanic legends, but may variously be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king , the dragon slayer Sigurd, the psychopomp of Welsh mythology , biblical figures such as Herod, Cain, Gabriel, or the Devil, or an unidentified lost soul. The hunters are generally the souls of the dead or ghostly dogs, sometimes fairies, valkyries, or elves. Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to forebode some catastrophe such as war or plague, or at best the death of the one who witnessed it. People encountering the Hunt might also be abducted to the underworld or t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
