Just learned Amazon Prime in the UK is now showing the 'Pendragon Cycle' fantasy series, so in case anyone stumbles into watching it by mistake, know that it was made by far-right Trumpists at the Daily Wire, explicitly as violent right-wing Christian propaganda (this is a tweet by its creator)

It's the International Day of Ogham today. The (former) OG(H)AM project are happy to announce the recipients of this year's Certificate of Achievement for Ogham Excellence, the team behind the creation of "Carved in Stone. A Storyteller's Guide to Pictland". More: carvedinstone.scot #IntDayofOgham

"It wasn't Medieval. It was the Victorians."

Searching for endnotes in a book. #academicchatter

This is Rocky. He just stopped by for a quick mid-zoom check in. Seems like everything is fine though, so he'll be off. Good chat. 13/10 (IG: rockyybowboa)

Really looking forward to this lecture by Jo Story on the @insularmss.bsky.social project, on insular manuscripts and cross-European connections. #IMC2026

very Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi coded

“digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing” Fully 33% of all my archival research.

Old English elegy: BIG MOOD Old Irish epic: BIG MOO'D

Currently slightly obsessed with David Hockney's portraits of his dachshunds.

Deadline tomorrow, Friday 3rd July!

Suetonius, in 60 AD, upon learning of Boudica

Word of the day: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... ‘a pissing’ A proverb from the Red Book of Hergest (1400): the sea will contain more water after a wren has pissed in it.   In other words, any progress we make, however small, is a step in the right direction and deserves to be celebrated!

Gair y dydd: geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...   Dihareb gofiadwy a chalonogol o Lyfr Coch Hergest (c.1400): bydd mwy o ddŵr yn y môr ar ôl i ddryw biso ynddo.   Mewn geiriau eraill, mae unrhyw gynnydd a wnawn, pa mor fach bynnag, yn gam yn y cyfeiriad iawn ac yn haeddu cael ei ddathlu!

Garffeld Pt 2

Garffeld

I am very excited to confirm that RGB images of the Hereford Gospels are now available online under Creative Commons license, thanks to the stellar work of Dr Bill Endres: osf.io/pswd5/overview

According to the Bacon Hope, pig-hunting King Arthur and his dog-named-horse Cafall will one day return from Avalon to save America from its porcine plague. 🐖

According to the Bacon Hope, pig-hunting King Arthur and his dog-named-horse Cafall will one day return from Avalon to save America from its porcine plague. 🐖

This little guy looks so much like a dachshund he needed to be shared on International Dachshund Day (the longest day of the year, get it?)

Lindisfarne, 793 CE.

The Hereford Gospels online symposium is on 26 June. It's a free opportunity to hear about this remarkable manuscript from the experts. I'm also pleased to confirm that it will be recorded for those who may not be able to come in real time! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/herefo...

Part-time instructor positions in Celtic Studies available at StFX University. See link: recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...

The 13th annual Celtic Students Conference by @celticstudents.bsky.social starts this Thursday! It will be held in TCD and over Zoom, with live interpretation for Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic papers. The schedule and registration link can be found at linktr.ee/celticstuden...

Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33). This month it will be on display in the @rialibrary.bsky.social on 26 June from 10:00-16:30. Come visit!

Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33) as a copy of a Latin psalter belonging to St Finnian in a single night. A dispute arose about the ownership of the copy leading to the battle of Cúl Dreimne in AD 561.

Cool stuff about my project! One of us will be on Radio Cymru to talk about it tomorrow afternoon as well. #medievalsky #celticstudies

Dark (ages) Mode Codex Aureus, Canterbury?, mid 8th century

Dark (ages) Mode Codex Aureus, Canterbury?, mid 8th century

If a Viking screamed "aaaaaah!" as an Irish charioteer ran him down, the Old Irish speaker would probably think "yup" because the Old Irish word for chariot was "á"

I'm in Prifysgol Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth University) this weekend. This evening, Dr Sara Elin Roberts launched her book "Children and Parents in Medieval Welsh Law" and Dr Simon Rodway his book "An Old Welsh Reader". Can be ordered here: www.mhra.org.uk/series/LMWL

Post established by Merlin, late 5th century

This is a really great list of resources for teaching and learning Medieval Latin compiled by Brigid Ehrmantraut #medievalsky www.medievalists.net/2026/06/lear...

1/2 - Small notification. It was found that certain (SMW) query results started to become incomplete. A maintenance script is now running to rebuild the full-text search index. This might take a while as it needs to plough through an estimated 3 million table rows

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

dunno who needs to know this but corgi is actually just welsh for dwarf dog dwarf (cor) dog (ci, meddal mutation into gi)

Cywyddau featured in a competition that wasn’t the Eisteddfod

Cywyddau featured in a competition that wasn’t the Eisteddfod

Been amused by the idea of Ogham business cards all day thanks to this convergence on my feed

🚨 The next online Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar is next Monday, 1st June! 🗓️ Kensa Broadhurst (University of Exeter) will speak about "Cornish: From the Romans to the death of Dolly Pentreath". 🔗 See poster for the link!

One of our largest cohorts of Celtic Studies majors graduated yesterday, very proud of them! Llongyfarchiadau! / Comhghairdeas!

We kick off our 2026 volume with two fantastic articles! In @bernhardbaver.bsky.social and Francesca Guido's piece, they reassess and challenge the Old Breton glosses on BN1616. Available, open access, here: journal.fi/scf/article/...

This is a scholarly and succinct account of archaeological and textual evidence for magic among Celtic-speaking peoples in the ancient world and Middle Ages. Ehrmantraut also surveys representations of magic in Celtic and Romantic literature. Two things struck me: 1/2

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

But now, for a big new announcement: the radically new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani (Brendan's Voyage) with English translation, just after being published by the School of Celtic Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie. /2

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

My 2023 Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture, "The Moral Economy in Early Medieval Ireland", is now available as a free PDF download from the ASNC website, for anyone who's interested! #OpenAccess #MedievalSky #Spéirghorm #Speirgorm @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications...

"But AI can transcribe quickly for me!" The lack of time for transcription in the archives is not natural, it is created. The time to transcribe, which is also time to read and think about material, has been taken from us by those with the power to fund our work. Now they want it without funding it.

Join us for this year's O'Donnell Lecture in #Celtic Studies: ‘Old #Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind?’ Dr Aaron Griffith (Utrecht University) 🗓 8 May at 5.30pm 📍 Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford All welcome! Register: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/old-ir...