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The Gododdin of Aneirin: Text and Context from Dark-Age North Britain [pdf 410pp] #Gododdin #Aneirin #LlyfrAneirin #CelticStudies https://www.academia.edu/109991544/The_Gododdin_of_Aneirin_Text_and_Context_from_Dark_Age_North_Britain

Look at what just arrived in the post: The latest issue of the North American Journal of Celtic Studies, with important articles on Cornish phonology, early Breton recordings, and a lost version of the 'Acallam'.

For more information about the journal, visit https://ohiostatepress.org/NAJCS.html

#CelticStudies #cornish #kernewek #breton #brezhoneg #Acallam #FinnCycle

An issue of the academic journal 'North American Journal of Celtic Studies' rests on the top of a wooden desk. The journal's paperback cover shows the silhouette of a windswept tree in dark green against a cream background.

University College Cork's School of History is holding the first Chris Williams Memorial Colloquium on Ireland and Wales this Friday and Saturday (21-22 November) on the theme 'Gerald of Wales: Identity, Afterlives, and Wonders'. Keynote speaker is Professor Huw Pryce (Bangor, Emeritus).

Full schedule and further information is available online:

https://www.ucc.ie/en/history/news/the-first-chris-williams-memorial-colloquium-on-ireland-and-wales.html

@histodons @medievodons

#medieval #CelticStudies #MiddleAges #Ireland #Wales #Cork #UCC

I have compiled a list of Ulster Cycle materials, including prose narratives (mostly what is in the Ulidia 1994 list) but also dindshenchas articles, some poems, and items from Cóir Anmann. There were 75 titles on the original Ulidia list, and over 200 here, so I hope that it will help lead people to some of the lesser known stories, poems, and other bits and pieces. It's available on Knowledge Commons (a wonderful and non-profit alternative to academia.edu, you can follow them @hello). The titles all link directly to CODECS for information about editions, translations, etc. (Thank you to @codecs for being such a fantastic resource!) I hope people will find it useful. It's just a first version and there will certainly be many changes and additions needed in future, but I think it's in a state to be of some interest and use, at least. Corrections and suggestions are very welcome!

https://works.hcommons.org/records/bdb7a-50d66

#UlsterCycle #IrishLiterature #MedievalLiterature #MedievalIrishLiterature #CelticStudies

CFP: ‘Women and the Weird’

From the committee: The Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic invites graduate students and recent graduates to submit 20-minute papers on the theme of ‘Women and the Weird’ for the 2026 conference on Saturday 21 February 2026 at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

Papers examining women’s roles both historical and literary, magic, the supernatural, and anything that does not fit conveniently within a (patriarchal) society are also of interest. We hope that this year’s colloquium will offer new discussions of aspects of early medieval Britain and Scandinavia that have escaped scholarly attention.

Deadline for submissions is NEXT MONDAY 10 November 2025 by midday. Please email an abstract of no more than 250 words to ccasnc@gmail.com with subject line 'Abstract for CCASNC 2026 [Last Name]'. Submissions for hybrid presenting are welcome.

More info is available online.

#CelticStudies #CFP #medieval

https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/ccasnc/index.htm

Nam bhodach liath a-nis
a’ streap gu mullach a bhràighe,
chan eil mi a’ còrdadh riut, a Llywarch,
mun bhata càm is riatanach gach là…

—Uilleam Nèill, “Freagairt Do Llywarch Hen”
published in FRIENDS & KANGAROOS: New Writing Scotland 17 (ASL, 1999)

(Llywarch Hen, c.534–608 CE, was an early Welsh poet & prince of Rheged, who complained about his advancing age & dependence on his walking stick)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Welsh #CelticStudies

Freagairt Do Llywarch Hen
Uilleam Nèill

Nam bhodach liath a-nis
a’ streap gu mullach a bhràighe,
chan eil mi a’ còrdadh riut, a Llywarch,
mun bhata càm is riatanach gach là.
Bha mi ro-dheiseil le cainnt, gu dearbh
aig amannan a’ feannadh amadan
ro-thric le smùid orm san taigh-òsd’.
Chan eil a’ chlann-nighean a’ toirt sùil orm
ach cò gheibh cron dhaibh, na luaidhean
is mise mar fheòil righinn an seiche liurcach.
Co-dhiù tha mi nis saor bho na geimhlean
is mo cheangal don chuthaich sin.
Ach tha am bata uinnsinn a’ fàs
na charaid dìleas dhomhsa
fhad’s a chuireas mi grèim
air a cheann càm is làidir
a chumas taic rium gu càirdeil
le bhachall dìreach daingeann
a mhaireas, is dòcha, nas fhaide na mi fhìn.
Is tha mi taingeil gur troimh a thoil fhiodha
chì mi a-rithist, theagamh
earrach uaine is samhradh,
foghar òir is donn,
mus tig mo gheamhradh dorcha deireannach.

Answer to Llywarch Hen
William Neill

A grey old man now
climbing to the braehead
I don't agree with you, Llywarch,
about the necessary walking stick each day.
I was too ready with my tongue at times, it's true,
for the flaying of fools
often with a drink taken in the inn.
The girls no longer cast an eye on me
but who would blame them, the dears
and me like tough meat in a wrinkled hide.
At any rate I am free from those gyves
and no longer chained to that madness
but the ash-stick has become
a faithful friend to me
as long as I keep hold of his strong bent head
that supports me in a friendly fashion with a straight, strong stave
that will doubtless last longer than myself.
And I am thankful that by his wooden wish
I may see again, perhaps,
green spring and summer
gold and russet autumn
before my last dark winter comes.

It’s always nice to read Sims-Williams putting down Celtosceptics.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ojoa.70002

#CelticStudies #Keltoi #Celtoscepticism #CelticBritain

Patrick Sims-Williams

‘Celtic Britain’ in pre-Roman archaeology, reconsidered

Summary. For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre-Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second-century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’. This is significant because Pytheas is the only writer before Julius Caesar known to have travelled in Britain. It does not prove that the Britons were wholly similar to Caesar’s Gauls, who were called ‘“Celtae” in their own language’. Nevertheless, it removes a long-standing terminological obstacle to a balanced evaluation of cross-Channel similarities and differences. Since Pytheas came from Marseille, he is likely to have been well informed about Celts and their language even before he started his voyage.

Hybrid seminar: Approaching Celtic Art Across the Atlantic (NYU Institute of Fine Arts)

Susanne Ebbinghaus, Harvard Art Museums

Thursday, 30 October 2025, 6:30 pm EDT (=10:30 pm GMT)

In the Iron Age, Roman, and early medieval periods, people in central and western Europe created elaborate objects decorated in a series of interlinked styles that have come to be called Celtic art. As preserved, Celtic art mostly plays out on jewelry, arms and armor, horse trappings, chariot components, and feasting equipment. In early medieval times, it enhanced objects associated with the church. Planning the first major exhibition on Celtic art in the United States offers an opportunity to reflect on the function of these objects as well as their research, reception, and revival.

The event will be held in-person at the Institute of Fine Arts, 1 E. 78th St., NYC, and it will be livestreamed.

Click the link for more info and to register.

#Celtic #CelticArt #CelticStudies

https://ifa.nyu.edu/events/date/10-30-25-2.html

Call for Papers, Celtic Students Conference (from Freya Smith):

The next Celtic Students Conference will be held at Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath | Trinity College Dublin in Ireland from 11 to 13 June 2026.

We welcome presentations from current students and recent graduates on any aspect of Celtic Studies in English and in any of the Celtic languages (Brezhoneg, Kernewek, Cymraeg, Gaelg, Gaeilge, Gàidhlig).

Abstracts of up to 200 words should be submitted by 12 December 2025. For more details and to submit, visit the following webpage:

https://linktr.ee/celticstudentsconference

If you have any questions about the conference or the Association, please contact us at:

celtic.students.council@gmail.com

#CFP #CelticStudies #brezhoneg #kernewek #cymraeg #gaelg #gaeilge #gaidhlig

“If you just look at the archaeology of our top early medieval monasteries, Portmahomack stands out as exceptionally literate and book-orientated. The standard books will say there are no Pictish manuscripts. We need to flip that on its head and say that the Book of Kells is actually an exceptionally Pictish-looking manuscript.”

New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/26/new-research-may-rewrite-origins-of-the-book-of-kells-says-academic

#Scotland #Ireland #medieval #earlymedieval #Picts #Celticstudies #art #religiousart

"Continuity and Change in Medieval Irish Law" - a one-day workshop taking place Friday October 24 at University College Dublin. In-person and online attendance possible. Details in link.

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/flexi-one-day-workshop-continuity-and-change-in-medieval-irish-law-tickets-1626461884279

#CelticStudies #Medieval #MedievalLaw #IrishLaw #Academia

Archaeoethnologica: Blanca Garcia Fernández-Albalat died / Morreu Blanca Garcia Fernández-Albalat

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#Obituary #Archaeology #archaeologist #HistoryofReligions #CelticStudies #CelticIberia #celts

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#Obituary #Archaeology #archaeologist #HistoryofReligions #CelticStudies #CelticIberia #celts

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#Obituary #Archaeology #archaeologist #HistoryofReligions #CelticStudies #CelticIberia #celts

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Makes you wonder how early we equated wealth with power — or more precisely, how tools of wealth (horses, land, mobility) became stand-ins for authority itself.

Maybe the myth is reminding us: kingship isn't innate. It's just someone who used to ride.

#Mythology #WelshMyth #CelticStudies #Mabinogion #Folklore #PowerAndWealth #PoliticalPhilosophy #IndoEuropeanMyth #HorsesInMyth #MythicSymbolism #OralTradition #DeepHistory #SlowThought