Matthew Clapham
Dec 22, 2023

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Thanks for the mention, John.

It seems that Boadicea is the form used by the Romans - and as they say, history is written by the victors. Slight irony that the name actually means 'victorious woman'.

Boudicca would have been the name she was known by in her own Brythonic language.

But I figured that for this article - given the likely age of most readers here on Medium - it made more sense to use the version we old folk remember from our history books.

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Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

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Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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