Anglo Saxon, Norse, And Celtic Alumni Newsletter
Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and CelticAlumni NewsletterDepartment of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and CelticIssue 8 August 2017The ninth-century Oseberg ship in Oslo — as photographed on a recent research trip to Norway by current PhD student Ben Allport (Clare, 2010).
Departmental News and EventJust now, deep into August,ASNC’s corner of 9 West Road isthe quietest it ever gets, but evenso I can hear the gentle murmuring of graduate students in thecommon room, and I know thatsome of my colleagues will bebusy at the summer admissionspool today: nothing here evercompletely stands still. A fewweeks ago at the annual Departmental Open Day I was powerfullystruck by the optimism and onwards drive with which we passthrough the yearly cycle, from welcoming a fresh crop of ASNaCs inOctober, interviewing those of thefuture in December, through toexamining the third-years and theMPhils and bidding them farewell,at the very same time as we aregreeting prospective applicants atthe Open Day; and of course thegraduate students are a vibrantstrand threaded through it all. Ithas been wonderful to see somany ASNaCs coming back tovarious events during the year,whether it be our Septemberdrinks reunion, the Black Tie dinner or the Garden Party, and weare also always delighted to hearnews of what people have beenFiona Edmonds and Rosalind Love at thedoing since graduating. As a way2016 departmental garden party.to spread news effectively, werecently set up an Anglo-Saxon,Norse and Celtic Alumni Facebook group. In a bid to steward our resources asbest we can, we have taken the difficult decision not to send this letter out inhard copy by post, but only as an e-newsletter, and hope not to cause too muchdisappointment thereby.Since there was no alumni newsletter last year we have a certain amount ofnews to catch up on. In the summer of 2016 we bade a deeply fond, sad fare-
well to Fiona Edmonds, as she moved on to a post as Lecturer in Regional History at the University of Lancaster, spreading the ASNaC love north-westwards(the picture is from the 2016 ASNC Garden Party, at which various presentations were made to Fiona, including a martially-clad frog, also depicted, frogsbeing one of Fiona’s lesser-known enthusiasms). Because of Fiona’s continuing involvement with the Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago project, we stillhave an excuse to hold on to her tightly, though. We had also waved goodbyeto Phil Dunshea, who had covered Fiona’s maternity leave and then workedalongside her when she returned from leave: Phil headed yet further north, toGlasgow, taking ASNC’s warmest wishes with him. So it was that in January2017 we were delighted that Ali Bonner took up the position of lecturer in CelticHistory (see her profile in this newsletter for more) and has very quickly settledinto the post. Another new beginning in January 2017 was the AHRC-fundedproject (ASNC’s third!) Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae, focused on the Latin Livesof the Welsh saints, which got off the blocks swiftly with Ben Guy as the Research Associate based in in the Department (with more detail elsewhere in thisnewsletter). Ben will be succeeded in October by David Callander. 2016brought news that Máire Ní Mhaonaigh had won a British Academy/LeverhulmeTrust Senior Research Fellowship enabling her to take time away from teachingand admin duties to complete her edition of Cogadh Gáedhel re Gallaibh. Tocover Máire’s teaching we were very pleased to welcome back from the otherplace Mark Williams for the year 2016-17: alas, though, that other place hasdrawn him back for next year, since he has been appointed the Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College (congratulations, Mark!).Rather like someone who emerges with surprise and rather tousled at the bottom of a very tall helter-skelter, having only seconds before ascended to the topfull of fearful anticipation, I find myself alreadyalmost at the end of my term of office as Headof Department. While I confess that there aresome aspects of the job that I won’t missmuch, when I hand over to Richard Dance atthe end of September, it will be with a strongsense of the very great privilege that it hasbeen to do my best to enable such a thrivinginstitution to function successfully and withimmense gratitude to my patient and hardworking colleagues and to the everenthusiastic students and alumni.Dr Rosalind Love, Head of Department
Departmental News and EventsMhaonaigh's research leave. He hasmost recently been Darby Fellow inOld and Middle English at Lincoln College, Oxford, and beforeDr Ali Bonnerthat was a Research Fellow at PeterLecturer in Celtic HistoryAfter reading for a degree in Classics house. He received his doctorate inCeltic from Jesus College, Oxford, inat Oxford Ali worked in television for15 years, before studying ASNaC, and 2008. His research focuses on mythology and the supernatural in medievalCeltic in CamCeltic literatures, and his most recentbridge, wherebook is Ireland's Immortals: A Historyshe gained herof the Gods of Irish Myth (Princeton,BA (Aff.), MPhil2016).and PhD in thedepartment,Dr Ben Guyworking on themanuscript trans- Junior Research Fellow, Robinsonmission of Pela- Collegegius’ Letter toI’m deDemetrias. Shelightedwas a Britishand honAcademy Postdoctoral Fellow 201215. Her research has focused on Pela- oured toannouncegius and Faustus of Riez, two Britishthat Iauthors of the fifth century who wrotein Latin; overall her interest lies in the havebeen ofhistory of the peoples of the Insularmilieu from the fifth century to the Con- fered Robinson College’s first Juniorquest. She has published on St Patrick Research Fellowship. I take up theposition in October 2017, and hope toand Pelagius, and the manuscriptbegin a new research project in contransmission of Pelagius’ works. Aliteaches Celtic history, as well as Latin junction with it. As an ASNC doctoralstudent, I became immersed in theand Medieval Welsh, and has justcompleted a book, The myth of Pelagi- tangled world of medieval Welsh genealogy, and more recently I have beenanism, which will be published by theenjoying the delights of Welsh hagiogBritish Academy.raphy in my role as a Research Associate working on ASNC’s Vitae SanctoDr Mark WilliamsTeaching Associate in Celtic Literature rum Cambriae project. But in RobinsonI hope to turn to another of the coreMark Williams joined the Departmentproblems of early medieval history: thefor a yearrelationship between politics and culto teachture. My key case study will be the rethe Irishgion of the river Dee in the northernpapersAnglo-Welsh march. This is a regionduringthat has received little detailed andProf. Nísustained attention, lying on the periphery of the core English and WelshNew Teaching andResearch Staff
Departmental News and Eventspolities. Yet it is a region that hasmuch to offer the historian interested inhow the languages, practices andidentities of local people changed inresponse to fluctuations in patterns oflordship and power. There’s much tobe done, and judging by what I canrecall of the infamous ASNC black tiedinner of January 2011, Robinsonshould provide just the right kind ofatmosphere to do it in.Hattie SoperJunior Research Fellow, CorpusChristi CollegeHattie plans to use the great opportunity presented by Corpus Christi's threeyear research fellowship firstly to writea monograph based on her doctoralresearch, addressing representationsof the human life course in Old Englishpoetry and prose, including centrallythe Exeter Book riddles and Beowulf.She then intends to embark on a companion monograph addressing variousconcepts ofdeath in OldEnglish literature, includingdeath-assleep anddeath at anintersectionwith geography. Both projects will befounded onclose reading,contextualisedin cultural and intellectual history aswell as contemporary theory. The workis intended to challenge long-standingscholarly assumptions such as the presumed irrelevance of texts which describe non-human life progression anddeath (that of animals and objects)with regard to human experience. Ultimately the research will attempt to engage with Anglo-Saxon conceptualisations of life course development andthe end of life without losing sight ofissues of genre, language, style andform.David CallanderResearch Associate, Vitae SanctorumCambriae projectDavid Callander will be joining the staffof ASNC as a post-doctoral researcheron the Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae project. His role will involve editing, translating, and commenting on the Latinlives of the Welsh saints. Originallyfrom Cardiff, David read English atOxford before joining the departmentin 2012, where he has been eversince. His research focuses on comparative study of medieval Welsh andEnglish literature, especially poetryand poetic structure. Examining thecontrasting narrative trends in earlyWelsh and English poetry formed thebasis of his PhD. Other interests include textual criticism, narrative theory,and collecting early printed Welshbooks. David is committed to linguisticdiversity inside and outside academia,and works in Welsh and German aswell as English. He is looking forwardto the ample opportunity the VitaeSanctorumCambriaeproject willprovide tolook at howtexts traveland aretransformedacross borders.
Departmental News and EventsIrish Harp Music: Traditional and ModernMargo Griffin-WilsonDr. Úna Monaghan, Rosamund Harding Research Fellow in Music at NewnhamCollege, Cambridge, performed 'Irish Harp Music: Traditional and Modern' inthe English Faculty Drama Studio on 9 March, 2017. Dr. Monaghan, a harper,composer and Irish speaker from Belfast, read Natural Science (Astrophysics)at Cambridge and holds a Ph.D in New Technologies in Contemporary IrishTraditional Music from Queen’s University, Belfast. Her research exploresintersections between Irish traditional music, experimental music and interactivetechnologies, and her memorable performance conveyed the depth of thetradition while pushing the boundaries of experimental techniques.The Drama Studio was filled to capacity, and the performance opened withcompositions by the blind harpist Turlough O’Carolan (1670-1738), which gaveexpression to the traditional form. As the performance progressed, the traditional instrument became part of a complex configuration of contemporary technological tools and computer sensors, revealing Dr. Monaghan’s skill as asound technician as well as a harpist. In the inventive piece, ‘The Chinwag’,harp music intersected with recorded conversations of women in rural Donegal,in what Monaghan describes as ‘a merging of melodies and life stories’.Dr. Monaghan’s performance follows upon her other featured works andawards. ( http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/directory/una-monaghan). The event wasorganized by Dr. Margo Griffin-Wilson (Teaching Associate, Modern Irish), withthe support of a grant from the Irish Government.Dr Úna Monaghan performing.
Departmental News and EventsIrish Scrabble (AnoukNuijten and Alice Taylor)the final round of a gameof Scrabble as Gaeilgeduring the ‘Lón Gaeilge’,an voluntary weeklymeeting organized bythe ASNC Modern Irishstudents interested inadditional conversationpractice during the lunchbreaks.Irish Language: Summer Study inthe Gaeltacht 2017Margo Griffin-WilsonThe Department of Anglo-Saxon,Norse and Celtic was awarded a grantfrom the Irish Government to assisttwo students who have achieved excellent results in Modern Irish to pursue their study of the spoken languagein the Gaeltacht. Advanced ModernIrish students Anouk Nuijten (ASNC)and Conor McCabe (Linguistics) wereawarded the grants and will attendsummer courses in the Gaeltacht inJuly-August 2017. Anouk Nuijten willstudy in the Connemara Gaeltacht andMcCabe will participate in the Daonscoil and an Advanced Irish course atColáiste na Rinne, Co. Waterford.ASNC students Anouk Nuijten andAlice Taylor, who have participated inthe Advanced Modern Irish classesand conversation sessions during the1916-17 academic year, have alsobeen awarded an H.M. ChadwickGrant to support their study of Irish(Old and Early Modern) at the DublinInstitute Summer School, July 2017.Anouk and Alice are pictured here, inIrish Film Screening at the European Parliament: ‘A Turning Tide inthe Life of Man’Margo Griffin-WilsonIn Easter Term 2016, the Departmentof Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic invited independent film-maker, Loïc Jourdain, a native of Brittany who lives inDonegal, to screen his award-winningIrish language documentary I mBéalna Stoirme / A Turning Tide in the Lifeof Man atCambridgeUniversity.Filmedover a period ofeightyears, ATurningTide in theLife of Manfollows thejourney ofone fisherman fromJohn O'Brien, resident of Inis Bó Finne,at the European Parliament filmscreening
Departmental News and Eventsthe Irish-speaking island of Inis BóFinne, John O’Brien, who campaignson behalf of the islanders (and minoritised fishing communities acrossthe EU more broadly) to regain rightsto the traditional catch.One year later, in March 2017, Jourdain was invited to screen the film atthe European Parliament in Brussels.The event was attended by John O’Brien and fellow islanders who continueto work for fishers’ rights. Since O’Brien first raised the plight of island andcoastal communities, support for smallfishers has grown. Mairéad McGuinness, Vice-President of the EuropeanParliament and MEP for the MidlandsNorth-West of Ireland, spoke at thescreening on the need for more EUand Member State support for localfishing communities, and the need forthe EU to ‘take on board their concerns’.A large group from LIFE (Low ImpactFisheries of Europe), http://lifeplatform.eu/7739/, including DeputyDirector Brian O'Riordan and representatives from the Netherlands, Italy,Spain and France and elsewhere, provided a clear voice at EU level for thesmaller scale Europeanfishers.Women from AKTEA,http://akteaplatform.eu/the European networkof women in fisheriesand aquaculture, voicedthe particular issues ofwomen. Dr. Margo Griffin-Wilson, TeachingAssociate in ModernIrish, was invited to attend the event and meetwith the Irish and European representatives.Medieval History DayMáire Ní MhaonaighThe Department contributed to a Medieval History Day for teachers organised by the Faculty of History on 26June 2017. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh gavea lecture on Vikings, one of a range ofsubjects offered on the day rangingfrom Early Islam to the Black Death.Teachers were also provided withsummary material on a topics withinthe Department’s remit, including material on ‘The Impact of the Vikings onthe English Language’ drawing on theresearch of GERSUM(www.gersum.org), and on ‘The Causes of the Viking Age’ prepared by DrElizabeth Ashman Rowe.The Department is keen to supportthe teaching of the new key units offered at A-level History, including ‘TheViking Age c. 790-1066’; Anglo-SaxonEngland; and ‘Britain: Migration, Empires and the People from c. 790’. Wewould be delighted to work withASNCs now involved in the teachingprofession to help with access to resources. Do get in touch!Máire Ní Mhaonaigh at the Medieval History Day
Research in ASNCVitae Sanctorum Cambriae: theLatin Lives of the Welsh SaintsBen GuyWhen it comes to text-basedAsnacery, you can’t beat a goodsaint’s Life. Whether you’re into thesea-faring voyages of St Brendan, thedragon-thwarting abilities of St Samson, or the raucous harp-playing of StDunstan, you’re bound to find something that sends the curiosity nervestingling.With such factors in mind, membersof the ASNaC department have recently turned their collectively penetrating gaze upon the comparativelyunder-studied corpus of Latin saints’Lives written in medieval Wales. Approximately fifty-four such hagiographical texts survive concerning sometwenty-five saints. Some of these arewell-known, such as Rhygyfarch’s Lifeof St David, written late in the eleventhcentury during a crucial period of diocesan reform and political antagonism.Others are rather more obscure, suchas the Life of St Justinian of Llanstinan(near Fishguard), surviving only in afourteenth-century abridgement. Someof these texts are woefully understudied, no doubt due in part to the general lack of reliable modern editionsand translations.ASNC’s new AHRC-funded project,entitled ‘Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae:The Latin Lives of the Welsh Saints’,seeks to remedy this situation. Theproject aims to transcribe all copies ofthe fifty-four texts, and then to edit andtranslate each text individually, providing supporting commentary in accompanying notes. Ultimately, this substantial body of edited material willbecome available for free on the web.The project is a collaborative venture between the ASNaC departmentand the University of Wales Centre forAdvanced Welsh and Celtic Studies inAberystwyth. Heading up the ASNaCteam are senior staff members Professor Paul Russell (Principal Investigator) and Dr Rosalind Love (SecondaryInvestigator), working alongside Research Associate Dr Ben Guy(Selwyn, 2009). The Aberystwythbranch of the project is being managed by another ASNaC alumnus,David Parsons (Corpus Christi, 1990;also Secondary Investigator), workingwith Research Fellows Dr Angela Kinney and Dr Martin Crampin.eDILMáire Ní MhaonaighMedievalIrish wordsand theirmeanings areat the centre of a collaborative projectbased in the Department of ASNaCand at Queen’s University Belfast. Theelectronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) is being updated andextended by Dagmar Wodtko andMáire Ní Mhaonaigh from the Department, alongside colleagues in Belfast.The work will result in 5,000 additionsor so being made to this invaluableresource.Among these additions is the wordrímaire which lives on in the modernIrish word for computer ríomhaire.‘Computers’ were a medieval necessity, since the calculation of time and ofimportant liturgical dates such asEaster were important. Medieval attestations of rímaire, therefore, will beincluded in the new eDIL.The discovery of new citations willensure that the existence of other
Research in ASNCwords which had in fact been considered doubtful is much more secure. Aword for a cloud, nin, had only beenknown from what looked like a fancifulexplanation of another word. Two newexamples of nin have been found in aversion of ‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’ (Táin Bó Cuailnge) underlining thefact that it was a real word in MedievalIreland. Indeed it is linked with the preeminent hero, Cú Chulainn, who maysuddenly appear a ninaib ocus aeraib‘out of clouds and the air’.A flavour of the Dictionary is givenregularly in the project’s Word of theWeek feature. Why not visit the thewebsite (www.dil.ie) to check it out,and you can also follow us on Twitter.IL Dictionary.Leeds InternationalMedievalCongress2017The GersumProject andeDIL teamedup for twosessions onlexicographyand loanwords at theIMC in Leedsin early July.Richard Dance (Gersum) and SharonArbuthnot (eDIL) at the IMC.Gersum ProjectBrittany SchornOne of the most lasting impacts of the Viking Age, especially in the north and east of England, and probably itsmost enduring and significant effect, was on the Englishlanguage. Richard Dance’s cutting-edge research intothis borrowed Scandinavian vocabulary – and how wecan identify it – now forms the basis for the Gersum Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This collaborative project’s team also includes ASNaCalumna Sara Pons-Sanz (now Cardiff University) as CoInvestigator and Brittany Schorn and Research Associate. The project’s aim isto understand Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary by examining theorigins of up to 1,600 words in a corpus of Middle English poems from the northof England. The project is named after the Middle English word gersum, borrowed from Old Norse gersemi ‘treasure’. English words with Old Norse originsenriched the language and include such basic items as sky, egg, law, leg, call,take, window, knife, die and skin, and the pronouns they, their and them, as wellas others as diverse and intriguing as hernez ‘brains’, muged ‘drizzled’, stange‘po
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