St. Kilda

St. Kilda is an odd and isolated little island in the Outer Hebrides.  Thought I'd read somewhere that this might have been partial inspiration for Qwghlm.

Inhabited for a couple thousand years with very limited contact with the outside world, St. Kilda was evacuated in the 1930s.

Notable ancient stone structure referred to as the Amazon's House.

Celtic/Gaelic words

Three words of interest came up while perusing the Wikipedia entry on the Gaels (pursuant to naming my next bang Gaelic Lightning (a knockoff of Celtic Thunder)):

Nemeton - A sacred grove (or more generally other sacred site). Also the pagan organization which was refused funding during John Silber's tenure at Boston University.

Echtra - Celtic "voyage to the otherworld" stories focusing on the heroe's journey rather than the otherworldly destination itself.

Immram - Celtic "voyage to the otherworld" stories focusing on the details of the otherworldly destination.

Hypatia

For future reference:

A note on the historicity of Hypatia as a defender of the Library of Alexandria and martyr for science:

http://armariummagnus.blogspot.com/2009/05/agora-and-hypatia-hollywood-strikes.html