(urth) More Castleview (Spoilers)

[Mo Holkar / UKG]

At 17:55 19/06/2007, you wrote:
>Anyone know the etymology of "Madadh?"

"Madadh" is Gaelic for "dog". So Rex von Madadh ~= king of the dogs.

Von Madadh must in some sense embody the spirit of Sally's dead dog 
Rexy, or is a fay posing as it. Rexy was run over the previous year, 
but reappears during the night. When Sally calls for Rexy, von Madadh 
appears at the door, with muddy feet, and hands her a card the colour 
of bone. He claims to work for the Daoine Institute -- the daoine 
sidhe are the good fairies in Celtic myth.

On another note, von Madadh's beard is described as red-gold, and a 
fox in Gaelic is just called "madadh ruadh", "red dog" -- shades of 
the foxy Dr Talos?

Mo