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Conan, Celtic male name. Bearers of the name include:
historical persons
literary and mythical persons
- Conan, King of the piratical Fomoraig of the Irish myth.
- Conan Maol, warrior of the Fianna in the Irish myth. Rescued from Tir na Tairngire by Finn mac Cumhal.
- Conan Mac Lia, Lord of Luachar; ally of the mythical war leader Finn mac Cumhal.
- Conan Mac Moirna, sorcerous warrior of the Fianna in the tale of Diarmait und Grainne. He is involved in a blood-feud with the war-leader Finn mac Cumhal, but Fionn is reconciled with him after Conan kills the dragon sprung from the head Cian.
- a war leader that makes an alliance with Cadwallader in the prophecies of Merlin ((Historia Regum Britanniae vii,3). Together they slaughter the foreigners until the rivers run with blood. One of Conan's descendants will be a "huge boar" that fights in Gaul and is feared by the Africans and the Arabs. Maybe identical with Conan Meriadoc.
- Conan the Barbarian, hero of numerous short stories and a novel by the American Fantasy-author Robert E. Howard, a Cimmerian mercenary, later king of Aquilonia.
semi-historical persons
- Conan Meriadoc (Kynan Medriadec), * ca. 305, † ca. 395 AD, legendary first Duke of Brittany.
- Aurelius Conanus, nephew and successor to Constantine as king of the Britons for three years at the end of the 6th century AD according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Placenames
- Conan, short for Kaerconan, town fortified by Aurelianus, king of the Britons after his victory over the Saxon forces of Hengist (Historia Regum Britanniae viii, 7). The captive Saxon leader Hengist is hacked to pieces by Eldol outside the town walls. Now called Cunungeburc according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, maybe present day Conisborough.
