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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ASNaC winds Celtic Studies of North America Prize
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’.
Continue ReadingNew British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow Appointed
Dr Jonathan Grove began his three year British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department working on ‘The cult of St Knud and the emergence of medieval Denmark’, funded by the British Academy.
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