Pagan Names

Aife

Pronounced EE feh
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About the name Aife

Aife is a Irish name meaning "beauty". It was the name of a great warrior woman of Irish Mythology. She appears in the Ulster Cycle in the tales The Wooing of Emer and The Death of the Son of Aife in which she bears the son of the great Irish hero Cú Chulainn after nearly defeating him in a battle he finally won by trickery.

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Aiofe

Origin
Europe
Celtic

literature, myth

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