An immense #superbowl, the Gundestrup Cauldron. c. 150-50 BC, discovered in Denmark

#Superbowl both ways: Lucanian Owl Skyphos, first quarter of 4th century B.C., from Apulia. www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 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! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Celtica XXXVII foilsithe / published! Seolfar Celtica XXXVII (2025) ar 19 Feabhra in DIAS Beidh an iris ar fáil ar líne 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/

📯 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.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET. 💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social To get the link, please contact [email protected] 🔗

retvrn to hedgehogs building cities and women in lakes distributing swords as a system of government

"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

We are pleased and excited to be sponsoring the following sessions (and a round table) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social this summer, some co-sponsored/organised with @networknorse.bsky.social!

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)

I love whoever brought the Mari Lwyds

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)

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)

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)

Registration for CCASNC 2026 is now live! We cannot wait to welcome guests and presenters to Cambridge on 21 February! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration for the conference I have organised is now open! Message me for the link and check out this amazing programme!

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

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?💘

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

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?

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 😊 👉 www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...

Come for the drypoint doodles drawn with someone’s (Eadburg’s?) thumb, stay for the discussion of women’s engagement with books and book culture. A really fascinating article!

Embedded in the medieval Irish tale Cath Maige Tuired is the story of Cridenbél, whose greedy consumption of three gold coins (the Dagda’s ‘best bits’) led to his demise. Elizabeth A. Gray’s translation is available on CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (for Cridenbél and the coins see pp. 29-31)

Today’s #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

Embedded in the medieval Irish tale Cath Maige Tuired is the story of Cridenbél, whose greedy consumption of three gold coins (the Dagda’s ‘best bits’) led to his demise. Elizabeth A. Gray’s translation is available on CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts (for Cridenbél and the coins see pp. 29-31)

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...🧵

Mae ‘Dwned’, cylchgrawn llên a llawysgrifau Cymru hyd 1800, ar gael ar lein (yn cynnwys y rhifynnau gwreiddiol print) 📚 ‘Dwned’, a journal about the literature and manuscripts of Wales up to 1800, is available online (including the original print issues) 📚

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: www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...

Am I the first person to have noted that the name of Hrothgar—the generous, bountiful, and munificent King who is plagued by Grendel in Beowulf—is more or less homophonous with the Welsh word rhoddgar, meaning "generous", "bountiful", "munificent"?

Mae ‘Dwned’, cylchgrawn llên a llawysgrifau Cymru hyd 1800, ar gael ar lein (yn cynnwys y rhifynnau gwreiddiol print) 📚 ‘Dwned’, a journal about the literature and manuscripts of Wales up to 1800, is available online (including the original print issues) 📚

Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳. The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Norfolk carnyx (and the Gundestrup cauldron) made it to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGfz...

"11/1" = "one one one" = "wan wan wan" (onomatopoeic dog barking in Japan)

犬の日の犬🐶 January 11th is known as Dog Day!

The Norfolk carnyx (and the Gundestrup cauldron) made it to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGfz...

Yr eitem dan sylw heddiw a restrir yng nghampwaith Daniel Huws, ‘A Repertory of Welsh Manuscripts and Scribes c.800–c.1800’: Gramadeg Einion Offeiriad / Welsh Grammar of Einion Offeiriad. Dyddiad/Date: 1316-1330 BMSS/1 www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

Since I haven’t 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!)

“[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.” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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! 🏰 www.cambridge.org/fr/universit...

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.

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.

“Mi a uydaf porthaỽr y arthur pob dyỽ kalan ionaỽr.” “I am gatekeeper to Arthur every 1st of January.” Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr to Culhwch, who sought entry into Arthur’s court after custom dictated that he should not be let in. ("Culhwch & Olwen", NLW Peniarth MS 4, s.xivᵐᵉᵈ)

"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 nÉolairg, past Benevenagh, across Lough Foyle, where I might hear musical harmony from the swans." (Middle Irish, ascribed to Colum Cille; @ria.ie 23 N 10 p. 91)

“Mi a uydaf porthaỽr y arthur pob dyỽ kalan ionaỽr.” “I am gatekeeper to Arthur every 1st of January.” Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr to Culhwch, who sought entry into Arthur’s court after custom dictated that he should not be let in. ("Culhwch & Olwen", NLW Peniarth MS 4, s.xivᵐᵉᵈ)

New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.

“Women in early medieval Ireland”, 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?...