Boy's name
Ailill
“AL-ill”
possibly 'elf' or 'sprite'
The story behind the name
Ailill mac Máta was Medb's husband and king of Connacht — and it is their argument in bed over who owned more that begins the Táin, the greatest epic in Irish. He is remembered as the more reasonable of the two, which in that marriage was not difficult.
Where the name belongs
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