The report on an epic journey of Celtic Studies students from the University of Bonn is online and again we think back with so much gratitude on those who let us to witness Welsh literature, culture and politics first-hand! Diolch o galon i chi! #PrifysgolCaerdydd #UniBonn #CelticStudies #Cymraeg

Join us on Monday at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar online for the lecture of Jessica Shales (Cardiff University) The Arthur of the Britons: comparing perceptions of Arthur across medieval Brittany, Cornwall, and Wales. Send an email to celtic@uni-bonn.de if you have not yet written to us this term

Join us tonight at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar online for the lecture of Kensa Broadhurst "Cornish: From the Romans to the death of Dolly Pentreath". Send an email to celtic@uni-bonn.de if you have not yet received the link #Kernewek #celticstudies

Join the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar online on 27.04.2026 (18:00 CET) for the paper of @siobhbar.bsky.social Siobhán Barrett (Maynooth University) Could there have been a medical school in Co Mayo in 16th-century, Ireland? Email celtic@uni-bonn.de to get the link shortly before the event.

Thrilled to see our volume on translating catechisms published as open access! What an adventure bringing together colleagues from Celtic regions, Ukraine, Greenland, Greece, the Basque Country & beyond. Huge thanks to all authors and my wonderful co-editor! #OpenAccess #CelticStudies #Translation

Spread the word about the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prizes of SCE! This is a great opportunity for early career researchers in Celtic Studies

Societas Celtologica Europaea@soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Did you know that we offer 2 student prizes? This year's deadline is 31 March! 🔸 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best Scholarly Article in Celtic Studies (by a pre-doc) 🔹 Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Celtic Studies More information: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ #AcademicSky

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Societas Celtologica Europaea warmly invites submissions for the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best Scholarly Article (by a pre-doc) and Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß Prize for the Best PhD Thesis. The deadline is 31 March 2026. Submissions should be sent to Elena Parina at eparina@uni-bonn.de.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus! Happy St David's Day!

🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET. 💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social To get the link, please contact celtic@uni-bonn.de 🔗

As it turns out, it's the Penguin Awareness Day - and unaware of it I have just talked about the Celticity of penguings in my seminar 😉

Just taught my last session of this year - wishing you all a peaceful Christmas and a happy New Year!

Join us tomorrow evening (6 pm CET) for the paper from @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social BRO - comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of contemporary Welsh-speaking communities. If you have not registered yet for our seminar this term, email celtic@uni-bonn.de to get the link shortly before the event.

All the very best to the colleagues for this great project!

Marged Haycock@gwenddolen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being billed as the first complete dictionary of ancient Celtic. The dictionary will not be huge because relatively few words survive, but experts from Aberystwyth University say they expect they will end up with more than 1,000 words. Continue reading...

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Had great fun talking yesterday about languages, politics and Celticity of Interceltique de Lorient in our seminar. This year's experience was amazing!

Today our students had to endure the tortures of defining 'Celtic' - and having mentioned Celtic crosses, I went out later to search for a Celtic cross in the cemetery across the road from my office. And there it was, quite impressive - dedicated to a well-known Irishman of the 19th century

Heuneburg field trip with our students. Sooo impressive!

The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky! ➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars. 👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!

Join us for another term of the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar online! The first lecture will be on 03.11.2025 (18:00 CET): Michiel de Vaan (Universität Basel): "Gaulish and its role in the rise of complex yes/no-answers in Gallo-Romance and West Germanic." Email celtic@uni-bonn.de to receive the link

The first article in our 2025 volume is @naoicea.bsky.social et al's edition and translation of the previously illegible pages of the Leiden University Library Fled Bricrenn and the process by which they made them visible, available open access here: journal.fi/scf/article/...

Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn: : Multispectral Imaging applied to f. 9v of Leiden MS VLQ 7

This contribution discusses the multi-spectral investigation of the previously illegible final page of Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS VLQ 7. The technical specifications of the images and the pos...

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Am ddridiau arbennig – llawn o ddysg, dathlu a chofio, a llawer o hwyl! Diolch i bawb yn @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social – a phen blwydd happys/hapus! Three glorious days – full of learning, celebration and remembering, and lots of fun! Huge thanks to all at the Canolfan and many happy returns!

I could not resist the temptation to co-organize a workshop at the Freie Universität, even if doing so less than in a week after the conference in Bonn is a clear symptom of madness. And I really loved it – but it had to be a very short visit, so no interaction beside that with colleagues and a cat

Still struggling to find coherent words to report about the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies - meanwhile only endless gratitude to the team, thankfulness to all the colleagues who came and made it such a wonderful new milestone in the history of Celtic Studies in Bonn!

Breaking news! @ninacnock.bsky.social just won the Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Price of the Societas Celtologica Europaea for the best PhD thesis! Congratulations!

The Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies starts tomorrow! So much looking forward to welcome all the wonderful scholars @cgschweizer.bsky.social @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @ninacnock.bsky.social @metamedievalist.bsky.social @medievalireland.bsky.social and a lot of others!

Roedd hi’n fraint siarad â Dei Tomos ar BBC Cymru am fy hoff gerdd Gymraeg, “Ciwcymbars Wolverhampton” gan Ifor ap Glyn. Yn ôl pob tebyg, roedd fy fersiwn i’n eithaf Rwsiaidd – fel fy nghiwcymbars newydd wedi’u halltu – ond roedd hi’n llawer o hwyl siarad amdani!

It was a true privilege to host these two talks by the two Welsh legends

Another year, another wonderful excursion to #Glauberg organized by the Celtic Studies students association of the Uni Bonn

Looking forward for another term at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar online - with Natalia Petrovskaia, @michael-hornsby.bsky.social, Jon Morris, Joe Eska, and Elisabeth Chatel!