Dr Elizabeth Boyle began her three year Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow post to work on ‘Religion and Thought in Ireland c.1050-c.1150’ in the Department.

Following the discover of the Anglo-Saxon gold hoard in Staffordshire, PhD student Paul Gazzoli had his own ‘tounge in cheek’ comments highlighted on the Times Online pages. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6849999.ece

The 2009 competition had seven indivudial entries and one group entry, reading passages in Old English, Old Norse, Latin and Gothic.The 2009 winner was Moa Hoijer (Prelim to Part I, Hughes Hall), who read from the Old Norse text Völundarkviða in forna (Helgakviða Hundingsbana II). This year there was one special recognition prize, which was […]