 Accordingly, "Morrígan" is often translated as "Phantom Queen".This is the derivation generally favoured in current scholarship.In the Middle Irish period, the name is often spelled "Mórrígan" with a lengthening diacritic over the "o", seemingly intended to mean "Great Queen" (Old Irish "mór", "great"; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic *"Māra Rīganī-s").