Myriah Williams
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Celticist and erstwhile cake baker
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In the 16th-17th c. the Black Book of Carmarthen was shared widely among poets & scholars. They made annotations & copies (& occasionally complaints!) before passing the book on. Celebrating my work on this hasnât felt right, but books & learning enrich our lives, then as now. Protect education.
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An immense
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, the Gundestrup Cauldron. c. 150-50 BC, discovered in Denmark
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Carin Ruff
3 days ago
#Superbowl
both ways: Lucanian Owl Skyphos, first quarter of 4th century B.C., from Apulia.
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Diane Watt
4 days ago
Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval womenâs writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. Youâre welcome.
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Deborah Hayden
5 days ago
đJob Klaxon!!đ Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish
@ceilteachomn.bsky.social
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS
5 days ago
Celtica XXXVII foilsithe / published! Seolfar Celtica XXXVII (2025) ar 19 Feabhra in DIAS Beidh an iris ar fĂĄil ar lĂne as sin amach. Celtica XXXVII (2025) will be launched on 19 February at DIAS It will be available online from that date.
www.dias.ie/celt/
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David Stifter đ”đđŠ
5 days ago
đŻ Job claxon: Assistant Professor in Celtic, University of Cambridge (ending soon)
@department-asnc.bsky.social
wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 Sept 2026. Details for the post can be found at
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
. Closing date for applications: Wed 11 Feb 2026.
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Assistant Professor in Celtic
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, within the Faculty of English wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 September 2026. We seek applicants who have research and
https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistant-professor-in-celtic-gh48210
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WeRateDogs
7 days ago
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
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Societas Celtologica Europaea
9 days ago
đš The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET. đŹ Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na SenĂłrach"
@disappearingtext.bsky.social
To get the link, please contact
[email protected]
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retvrn to hedgehogs building cities and women in lakes distributing swords as a system of government
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"The city will be rebuilt by a hedgehog laden with fragrant apples... The hedgehog will hide his apples there and construct pathways beneath the earth." The Prophecies of Merlin, ed. & trans. by Reeve & Wright in The History of the Kings of Britain (Boydell Press, 2007), p. 152
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Celtic Hagiography Network
12 days ago
We are pleased and excited to be sponsoring the following sessions (and a round table) at
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this summer, some co-sponsored/organised with
@networknorse.bsky.social
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Mary Jones
13 days ago
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WeRateDogs
15 days ago
This is Mochi. He wanted to see if you were done with work yet. Knows you just logged on, but still thought he'd check. 12/10 (IG: mochidanchoo)
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Louisa
17 days ago
I love whoever brought the Mari Lwyds
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January 25th is St Dwynwen's Day, Wales's answer to Valentine's Day. Though the famous (?) story of the saint's lover being frozen by God was probably the late invention of Iolo Morganwg, earlier in the mid-14th c. poet Dafydd ap Gwilym called upon her to act as a "llatai" or "love messenger" (1/3)
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Ottid eiry ar warthaw reo. gosguipid g[u]int blaen guit tev. kadir yscuid ar yscuit glev. Snow falls atop ice wind sweeps the tips of sturdy trees powerful a shield on the shoulder of the brave "Llym awel", NLW Peniarth MS 1 (The Black Book of Carmarthen, mid. 13th century)
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Ottid eiry ar warthaw reo. gosguipid g[u]int blaen guit tev. kadir yscuid ar yscuit glev. Snow falls atop ice wind sweeps the tips of sturdy trees powerful a shield on the shoulder of the brave "Llym awel", NLW Peniarth MS 1 (The Black Book of Carmarthen, mid. 13th century)
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CCASNC
19 days ago
Registration for CCASNC 2026 is now live! We cannot wait to welcome guests and presenters to Cambridge on 21 February!
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CCASNC 2026 Registration
Please fill out this form to register for the 2026 Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. The Colloquium takes place on the 21st of February 2026 in the Faculty of English, 9 West Roa...
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Kit
19 days ago
Registration for the conference I have organised is now open! Message me for the link and check out this amazing programme!
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Niamh Wycherley
19 days ago
New episode on the important role saints played in medieval society and the creative writing they inspired! With the brilliant Dr Sarah Waidler
@gihnyu.bsky.social
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Y Geiriadur
19 days ago
Gair y Dydd: SERCH
geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
- Teimlad o hoffter neu diriondeb tuag at berson, cariad, chwant a thrachwant. Saethai Dafydd ap Gwilym 'saethau serch' at ferch, fel rhyw giwpid, er mwyn dangos ei serch tuag ati. A fyddwch chi'n dathlu Dydd Santes Dwynwen dros y Sul?đ
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones
20 days ago
It is amusing that, despite how academics *have* been saying for c.40 years that the ancient Britons weren't labelled Celts, most normal people have just carried on assuming they were called Celts so this is only a big reversal for *us* We're very important and impactful, honest
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Marged Haycock
21 days ago
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15745
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Lecturer in Celtic Languages and Literatures
The Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures seeks applications for a lecturer in Celtic Languages and Literatures. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2026. The lecturer will be res...
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15745
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Thinking more about these doodles, the angle might suggest that if they were drawn by outlining a thumb or finger, it was the thumb/finger of a right hand. Was Eadburg a lefty?
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Dr Toby Driver
23 days ago
I'm delighted to be confirmed as the new Editor for Archaeology & Art for the international journal Studia Celtica. With a double-blind peer review policy the journal is an excellent place to consider publishing new archaeological research about the Celtic nations đ đ
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Come for the drypoint doodles drawn with someoneâs (Eadburgâs?) thumb, stay for the discussion of womenâs engagement with books and book culture. A really fascinating article!
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Embedded in the medieval Irish tale Cath Maige Tuired is the story of CridenbĂ©l, whose greedy consumption of three gold coins (the Dagdaâs âbest bitsâ) led to his demise. Elizabeth A. Grayâs translation is available on CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (for CridenbĂ©l and the coins see pp. 29-31)
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Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired
https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300010.html
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PCA
26 days ago
Todayâs
#FindsFriday
is the head of the Norfolk boar standard! Its fierce face was the first sign, on site, of the Iron Age hoard featured this week on Digging for Britain.
www.pre-construct.com/news/the-nor...
#IronAge
#Archaeology
#NorfolkCarnyx
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Embedded in the medieval Irish tale Cath Maige Tuired is the story of CridenbĂ©l, whose greedy consumption of three gold coins (the Dagdaâs âbest bitsâ) led to his demise. Elizabeth A. Grayâs translation is available on CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (for CridenbĂ©l and the coins see pp. 29-31)
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Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired
https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T300010.html
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Carin Ruff
29 days ago
I went to rare books at CUA today to visit their set of the Lindisfarne Gospels facsimile and it was such an interesting exercise in looking and noticing things, and in the value of looking at different facsimiles of the same MS. I went primarily to read the essays in the commentary vol., but...đ§”
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Mae âDwnedâ, cylchgrawn llĂȘn a llawysgrifau Cymru hyd 1800, ar gael ar lein (yn cynnwys y rhifynnau gwreiddiol print) đ âDwnedâ, a journal about the literature and manuscripts of Wales up to 1800, is available online (including the original print issues) đ
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DWNED.CYMRU
CYLCHGRAWN LLĂN A LLAWYSGRIFAU CYMRU HYD 1800
https://www.dwned.cymru
30 days ago
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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS
29 days ago
Studia Celtica 2025 has arrived! - a substantial issue, produced jointly by the Ganolfan and
@uniwalespress.bsky.social
@collen105.bsky.social
. Further information is given here:
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Gareth Roberts
30 days ago
Am I the first person to have noted that the name of Hrothgarâthe generous, bountiful, and munificent King who is plagued by Grendel in Beowulfâis more or less homophonous with the Welsh word rhoddgar, meaning "generous", "bountiful", "munificent"?
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Mae âDwnedâ, cylchgrawn llĂȘn a llawysgrifau Cymru hyd 1800, ar gael ar lein (yn cynnwys y rhifynnau gwreiddiol print) đ âDwnedâ, a journal about the literature and manuscripts of Wales up to 1800, is available online (including the original print issues) đ
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DWNED.CYMRU
CYLCHGRAWN LLĂN A LLAWYSGRIFAU CYMRU HYD 1800
https://www.dwned.cymru
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Dr Toby Driver
about 1 month ago
Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales đźđ„ł. The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland đ
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk8j1gkxelo
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The Norfolk carnyx (and the Gundestrup cauldron) made it to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGfz...
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Pete Birkinshaw
about 1 month ago
"11/1" = "one one one" = "wan wan wan" (onomatopoeic dog barking in Japan)
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Masukeđ¶+rocogirlđ©
about 1 month ago
çŹăźæ„ăźçŹđ¶ January 11th is known as Dog Day!
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The Norfolk carnyx (and the Gundestrup cauldron) made it to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGfz...
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about 1 month ago
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Archifau Prifysgol Bangor University Archives
about 1 month ago
Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws, âA Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800âc.1800â: Gramadeg Einion Offeiriad / Welsh Grammar of Einion Offeiriad. Dyddiad/Date: 1316-1330 BMSS/1
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Since I havenât seen it shared among the carnyx posts, this write up of the discovery has some additional pictures and notes that pieces of a *second* carnyx were also found in the hoard (not as sensational as the nearly complete one, but still!)
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Rare Iron Age Hoard Found In Norfolk | Historic England
A remarkable collection of Iron Age objects has been discovered in West Norfolk.
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/east-of-england/rare-iron-age-hoard-found-in-norfolk
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Elizabeth Boyle
about 1 month ago
â[But] almost certainly the items were buried in the first century AD, and that brings us closer to the Iceni and to Boudicca. They are of such quality that ⊠any important people from the Iceni and other groups would have known these objects.â
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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âExtraordinaryâ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jan/07/iron-age-war-trumpet-find-britain-norfolk-boudicca-links?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Justine Breton
about 1 month ago
It's coming! After years of hard work by
@radulescur.bsky.social
and Andrew Lynch, as well as a great number of Arthurianists from around the world, The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture is here! đ°
www.cambridge.org/fr/universit...
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The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture 2 Volume Hardback Set | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
https://www.cambridge.org/fr/universitypress/subjects/literature/anglo-saxon-and-medieval-literature/cambridge-history-arthurian-literature-and-culture?format=WX&isbn=9781009031202
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Dr Danny Bate
about 1 month ago
In a curious connection between the Bonaparte dynasty and western Cornwall, Louis Lucien had this monument set up in the little Cornish village of Paul, commemorating Dorothy Pentreath, possibly (but probably not) the last native speaker of Cornish prior to its modern revival.
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Senate Gabe
about 1 month ago
Just a reminder: here is all that it took to get president Andrew Johnson impeached. They introduced this and voted on it. They came up with the exact articles to send to the senate later.
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âMi a uydaf porthaỜr y arthur pob dyỜ kalan ionaỜr.â âI am gatekeeper to Arthur every 1st of January.â Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr to Culhwch, who sought entry into Arthurâs court after custom dictated that he should not be let in. ("Culhwch & Olwen", NLW Peniarth MS 4, s.xivá”á”á”)
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David Stifter đ”đđŠ
about 1 month ago
"It would be pleasant, son of my god, in wondrous journeys to go, over the wave, like a well of deluge, to Ireland. To Mag nĂolairg, past Benevenagh, across Lough Foyle, where I might hear musical harmony from the swans." (Middle Irish, ascribed to Colum Cille;
@ria.ie
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âMi a uydaf porthaỜr y arthur pob dyỜ kalan ionaỜr.â âI am gatekeeper to Arthur every 1st of January.â Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr to Culhwch, who sought entry into Arthurâs court after custom dictated that he should not be let in. ("Culhwch & Olwen", NLW Peniarth MS 4, s.xivá”á”á”)
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The Conversation UK
about 1 month ago
New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
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How Celtic languages spread across Britain and Ireland: why we need to reconsider the early story
New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
https://tcnv.link/dYwZSX9
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Aidan O'Sullivan
about 1 month ago
âWomen in early medieval Irelandâ, Online lectures by me, Lizzie Boyle, Charlene Eska, and Fergus Kelly seminar for Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
youtu.be/ebQjYq-rT4c?...
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Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly
YouTube video by Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain & Ireland
https://youtu.be/ebQjYq-rT4c?si=5I5XZ2Endh4P6MkN
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