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Modern Irish in Easter Term, 2016
Screening of Irish language film by Loïc Jourdain: I mBéal na Stoirme / A Turning Tide in the Life of Man (Lugh Films, Co. Donegal http://www.lughfilm.com).Dr Margo Griffin-Wilson writesOn 28 April the...
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New Article on Þórsdrápa from Tom Grant
Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 12 will be out soon, featuring an article by ASNC PhD student Tom Grant about ‘Þórr the War God: Polemicizing Myth in Eilífr Goðrúnarson’s Þórsdrápa’. Read more about it...
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Voyages Along the North Way, Past and Present
Hardangerfjorden HordalandBen Allport, PhD CandidateA well-known textual source for Viking Age Norway, known as Ohthere’s Voyage, relates the account of a Norwegian trader at the court of King Alfred...
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The annual Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic (CCASNC) took place this year on the 11th February, with the theme ‘Identity and Ideology’. We welcomed nine postgraduate speakers,...
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‘Now comes the shadow-dark dragon flying’ – Eddic Poetry and the Power of Legend
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Judy Quinn, Brittany Schorn and Carolyne Larrington share some reflections on Old Norse eddic poetry on the Cambridge University Press blog.Cambridge University...
View ArticleBook of Uí Mhaine Conference, 2017
On 2nd March the Royal Irish Academy hosted a two-day conference at Dublin on the late fourteenth-century manuscript Leabhar Ua Maineor Book of Uí Mhaine. Twelve speakers presented papers on various...
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After Winefride
One of the best things about working for the Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae project has been having the chance to edit the Latin lives of the border-crossing saint Winefride/Gwenfrewy. Winefride is presented...
View ArticleThe Myth of Pelagianism
The Myth of Pelagianism is a new book by Ali Bonner, a member of the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Pelagius is the first known British author, famous for his defence of free will as the...
View ArticleDiscovery: A New Life of St Cybi
The Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae project (run between ASNC and CAWCS) is very excited to announce the discovery of a new medieval Life of St Cybi. David Callander (research associate on VSC 2017–8) came...
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