Announcing a symposium on gender in medieval insular literature to be held 29-30 May in Aberystwyth.
Less than a month to submit an abstract!
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Sgwrs am un o gerddi hynod y Myrddin Cymraeg canoloesol, sef yr 'Oianau'.
Dewch yn llu yn y cnawd neu ar-lein!
π 1.51, Adeilad Parry-Williams (Prifysgol Aberystwyth)
π Ar-lein (linc yn y postiad nesaf)
β° 5:30pm
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Dydd Mawrth, 17.03.26
(Ni fydd cyfieithu ar y pryd.)
Welcome! Thanks for bringing more manuscripts to Bluesky! Could I request a peek at Cotton Caligula A.iii?
The opening of the Gospel of St Matthew from the Bodmin Gospels.
A decorated canon table from the Bodmin Gospels.
The opening of the Gospel of St Mark from the Bodmin Gospels.
A page from the Bodmin Gospels, showing a set of added manumissions, or documents concerning the release of slaves.
A few folios from the Bodmin Gospels (Add MS 9381), a 9th-century Breton Gospel-book that was brought to Bodmin in Cornwall by the end of the 10th century. It's notable for its added manumissions, documents recording the free of slaves.
@ccurran.bsky.social
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Thurs 26 March, Prof. Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Memorial Lecture (in-person and online), on a topic close to Bannerman's own work: 'DΓ‘l Riata and Northumbria, c. 700β1000: Connections and comparisons'.
Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More info π
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Babe, wake up, they're reinventing the commentary tradition from first principles
Perhaps most famous for her poem on the vagina, Welsh poet Gwerful Mechain (c. 1460-1502) also composed an ode to her maidservant as she shat:
She bent where her water escaped - bubbling
From the boiler of her breeches
Her holes were babbling
Muck came, and an arch of water
#InternationalWomensDay
A Gaulish spindle-whorl from Saint-Martin-du-Tertre, Sens (Yonne) (L-120). It says:
GENETTA IMI / DAGA VIMPI
This probably means "I am a good and pretty girl"
Source: Alex Mullen & Coline Ruiz Darasse, Gaulish. Language | Writing | Epigraphy (2018), p. 32.
Quite! Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan has suggested it might have been copied down by accident or due to the whim of the copyist⦠ha.
Iβw morwyn wrth gachu
Crwciodd lle dihangodd ei dΕ΅rβn grychiast
O grochan ei llawdwr;
Ei deudwll oedd yn dadwrβ,
Baw a ddaeth, a bwa o ddΕ΅r.
ed. Nerys Ann Howells, Gwaith Gwerful Mechain ac Eraill (Aberystwyth, 2001), no. 18
#DiwrnodRhyngwladolYMerched
Perhaps most famous for her poem on the vagina, Welsh poet Gwerful Mechain (c. 1460-1502) also composed an ode to her maidservant as she shat:
She bent where her water escaped - bubbling
From the boiler of her breeches
Her holes were babbling
Muck came, and an arch of water
#InternationalWomensDay
#DiwrnodRhyngwladolYMerched
#InternationalWomensDay
"A spindle-whorl for a spindle-whorl", as the Old Testament says (vaguely remembered).
Here's one from Orkney for Women's Day, in Sc. Gaelic & ogham script (Buckquoy, S-ORK-005). It probably reads BENDDACTANIML "a blessing, soul of L".
π: ogham.celt.dias.ie/S-ORK-005
π·: @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social
This review by Simon Rodway of a new introduction to the Mabinogi (aptly titled, Introduction to the Mabinogi) indicates it might be a useful volume for non-specialists.
using a chisel and mallet to carve letters into stone
workbench with stone carved with letters in Insular Irish script
sun shining through window onto work bench with tools, carved stone and rubbing of the carving
Spent a very enjoyable, informative and productive day yesterday experimenting with letter-carving under the superb guidance of stone sculptor and letter-carver Aileen Anne Brannigan. On the EMISoS project, we are analysing the palaeography of early medieval Irish inscriptions on stone monuments but
Latest episode of the podcast is a masterclass on the 'Ulster Cycle', TΓ‘in BΓ³ Cuailgne & Irish literature from Prof. RuairΓ Γ hUiginn @scs-dias.bsky.social. We learn how these stories can be valuable to the historian, their lasting relevance & how they've evolved 1/
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π¨ SCE Student prizes announcement!
We warmly invite submissions for the Johann-Kaspar-ZeuΓ Prizes of the Societas Celtologica Europaea in two categories:
- Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies
- Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies
More info below or at: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/
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Poster advertising H M. Chadwick Memorial Lecture, Cambridge, 19 March 2026. See link.
LΓ©acht ar an mborradh a thΓ‘inig faoin litrΓocht Breatnaise i dtrΓ©imhse Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240).
A lecture on the flourishing of Welsh literature in the age of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240).
Cambridge, 19 MΓ‘irt/March 2026.
#DIASdiscovers
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Schedule available for Sacred Networks, 1-2 May at University College Dublin www.eventbrite.com/e/sacred-net... @networknorse.bsky.social
nifer o gacennau moethus ar werth mewn ffenestr siop, er enghraifft browni 'mousse' siocled
Gair y dydd: cacen geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html...
Dyma ddewis da o gacennau - pa un fyddai orau gennych chi? Nid oes yna gacen fraith na chacen naw rhyw - edrychwch ar yr erthygl yn GPC i gael gwybod beth ydynt! Efallai mai teisen neu gΓͺc yw eich gair chi am felysfwyd o'r fath.
Full-page QUONIAM opening of the Gospel of Luke in Insular style, with geometric initial and capitals and lots of interlace with beasts.
Manuscript page in Insular majuscule script
This is the feast of St. Chad, d. 672, Bp of various Angles, a great excuse to look at the St. Chad Gospels, which have nothing really to do with him except that they may have been at with his shrine. Their origin and provenance are contested, but they're early 8th c., maybe ca. 730. #medievalsky
St. David preaching in an historiated D in Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.27, p. 618
St. Patrick preaching in an historiated P in Cambridge University Library MS Ff.1.27, p. 453
In honor of St. David's Day, the story of St. Patrick being kicked out of Wales by an angel in order to make way for the Welsh saint:
#DyddGΕ΅ylDewi π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ (1/9)
Diolch i Malo Adeux am ei seminar ar βYstoria Daret: sources, circulation, receptionβ. Thank you to Malo for his seminar last week. A recording is available on YouTubeπ
youtu.be/7Ow88Xw2guM
Translated from Buchedd Dewi (The Life of David), based primarily on the version in Oxford, Jesus College MS 119 edited by D. Simon Evans, with some emendation from the version in National Library of Wales, Llanstephan MS 27. (9/9)
Middle Welsh text of Buchedd Dewi (The Life of David), Oxford, Jesus College MS 119, fol. 93v
And Patrick went to Ireland, and that man together with him; and that one was a bishop after that. (8/9)
Middle Welsh text of Buchedd Dewi (The Life of David), Oxford, Jesus College MS 119, fol. 93v
And then Patrickβs mind was quieted, and Patrick left that place to David. And he prepared his ship in the harbor, and he raised from the dead a man who had been buried on the sea-marsh for fifteen years; his name was Kruchier. (7/9)
Middle Welsh text of Buchedd Dewi (The Life of David), Oxford, Jesus College MS 119, fol. 93v
Since it is you who will be an apostle to the island you see, and you will suffer there for Godβs love; and God will be with you, no matter what you may do." (6/9)
Middle Welsh text of Buchedd Dewi (The Life of David), Oxford, Jesus College MS 119, fol. 93v
And the angel said to him, "Patrick, be glad. The Lord sent me to you to show you the island of Ireland from the seat which is in Vallis Rosina (and which is called now Patrickβs Seat). (5/9)
Middle Welsh text of Buchedd Dewi (The Life of David), Oxford, Jesus College MS 119, fol. 93v
And Patrick prepared himself to depart, and to leave that place to the Lord Christ. And the Lord, nevertheless, loved Patrick greatly, and sent an angel to placate him. (4/9)
Middle Welsh text of Buchedd Dewi (The Life of David), Oxford, Jesus College MS 119, fol. 93r
This is what Patrick did, he became enraged and said, "Why has the Lord scorned his servant, who since youth has served him through fear and love, and chosen now a boy who is not born, and who will not be born until the end of thirty years?" (3/9)
