Congratulations to Dr Alderik Blom, Research Fellow at Girton College, who has been awarded a British Academy post-doctoral Fellowship. Dr Blom will hold his Fellowship at the University of Oxford, affiliated to Corpus Christi College, and will be working on a large scale-comparison of early mediaeval vernacular glossing, both Germanic and Celtic. His new project […]
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2010 Clemoes Reading Prize Winners
This annual event in which competitors read and perform passages in any of the languages taught in the Department was held on May 5. This year’s standard was very high and the joint winners were Moa Höijer (reading extracts from Lokasenna in Old Norse) and James Lloyd (reading from Genesis III in Old English). Elisabeth […]
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Congratulations to Deborah Hayden, doctoral student and Lecturer in Modern Irish, who has won the Celtic Studies Association of North America Student Essay Prize 2009 for her paper ‘Anatomical Metaphor in Auraicept na nÉces, Sanas Cormaic and the Trefhocal’.
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