Prof Paul Russell and PhD student Myriah Williams presented a lecture at the National Library of Wales on April 1st entitled ‘The Black Book of Carmarthen: Minding the Gaps’ to a sold out audience. The lecture sought to address some under-studied aspects of one of Wales’s most treasured manuscripts, Peniarth 1, informally known as the […]
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Dr Judy Quinn on Sagas and Space
While on sabbatical leave at the University of Zürich in Lent term, Judy Quinn completed filming of a segment of a new MOOC (massive open online course) on Sagas and Space: https://www.coursera.org/course/sagaspace The presentation, on space in eddic poetry, forms part of the course material for the second week of the MOOC, which has been […]
Continue ReadingDigitisation of Medieval Welsh Manuscript: The Cambridge Juvencus (MS Ff.4.42)
A manuscript containing the earliest pieces of verse in Old Welsh, the Cambridge Juvencus (MS Ff.4.42), has just been digitised and added to the Cambridge Digital Library. The verses, known as the ‘Juvencus Nine’ and the ‘Juvencus Three’, were added in the late ninth century to the flyleaves and margins of an existing Latin text, […]
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