Meaning & History
Of uncertain derivation. This was the name of the title character in the Irish Arthurian romance Céilidhe Iosgaide Léithe (The Visit of the Grey-Hammed Lady). She married King Arthur when she took him and his knights to the Otherworld. She was the daughter of Daire, a fairy king, by Rathlean. She was said to have shapeshifted from time to time into a deer.