‘Hwæt! The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Saxon warmly congratulates Professor Richard Dance, who has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2023 For a small department like ours to be able to boast of two Pilkington Prize winners — Professor Rosalind Love was awarded hers in 2018 — is exceptional. Long may the puns […]

Members of the Department are very sad to learn of the recent passing of Colin Wilcockson, a Fellow of Pembroke College, and for many years Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the College. To his family and friends we offer our deepest sympathy. You can read a tribute to Colin on the […]

Congratulations to Prof. Gregory Toner of Queen’s University Belfast, and Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh who have been awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a project entitled ‘A Chronology of the Medieval Irish Lexicon’. Working with Dr Sharon Arbuthnot in ASNC, and a second researcher based in Belfast, the project […]