Scholarly Name Reference
Fomorian king whose destructive eye blasts armies when its lid is raised, slain by his grandson Lúg with a sling-stone at Cath Maige Tuired.
Scholarly reference for Balor
Balor
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual celtic names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
BALOR
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Balor is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Balor
Because the name is already in Latin letters, the Unicode restoration does not add diacritics or change the script. Its value here is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the recovery of lost marks.
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How balor becomes Balor
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | b | → | B | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 04 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 05 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
Why Balor is classified as Tier-2
The Celtic name Balor is attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode restoration is identical to ASCII, so no diacritic or script recovery is needed. It is catalogued as a single-tier Tier-2 name because the scholarly form carries no stress or length marks.
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