Warm congratulations to Dr Ben Guy who has been appointed as a Research Associate at Cardiff University from the end of March 2022. Ben will be working on the new AHRC-funded project called ‘An Edition of the Welsh Myrddin Poetry’, which will run for three years.  Ben’s role will be to edit the seven earliest […]

Shifting Landscapes of the Medieval World, a series of six seminars, January-June 2022, convened by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (ASNC) and Miranda Griffin (MMLL) will commence on Wednesday 19th January, 13.00-14.30 (Faculty of English S-R24 and online) with a paper by Prof. Renaud Gagné. Over the course of six monthly events, a focus on different aspects […]

Warm congratulations to Dr Jonathan Hui who has won the 2021 Katherine Briggs Award for his edition of Vilmundar saga viðutan. The Saga of Vilmundur the Outsider. Jonathan was awarded his PhD in ASNC in 2018. Further details of the award can be found here: https://folklore-society.com/blog-post/jonathan-hui-wins-the-katharine-briggs-award-2021/