Trudy Thurgood wrote: > > Could someone please tell me what Hibernium means? I keep coming across the > word. > Trudy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 5:11 PM > Subject: OH-CLEVELAND-IRISH-D Digest V00 #113 Hibernia is the name that the ancient Romans gave to Ireland. Apparently they considered it a dark, mysterious place too cold, wild and far (across the Irish sea)to attempt to subjugate. This is the same term that the Romans used when they spoke of encamping a legion during the non-fighting winter season in Europe. In Caesar's Gallic Wars "Hibernia" means "winter quarters". It origin of our English word "hibernation", which describes how bears and other animals spend the winter sleeping in a warm cave and living off the accumulated fat in their bodies. Ed