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/...
Celtic Studies at St FX University
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...
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
Cool stuff about my project! One of us will be on Radio Cymru to talk about it tomorrow afternoon as well. #medievalsky #celticstudies
Olly DH
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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.
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"
