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Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. Newer posts →. The Over Kirkhope Stone. The burial ground may have been associated with a very early church and, although there are no visible traces of such a structure, the first element of the place-name. Website (see the link below). The stone is now at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. The close-up of the Orans figure at the top of this blogpost is taken from an illustration in Allen and Anderson’s. Searching for Pictish gold.
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“…sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh.” | For I Have Tasted the Fruit
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For I Have Tasted the Fruit. It gives you Life/To Knowledge…. 8220;…sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh.”. Those wacky Americans, and their disrespect for dead authors. Or those wacky Brits, and their stuffy, closed-minded attitude to the free-wheelin’ democratic attitude of their estranged children. Or perhaps a third option, something like ‘those wacky D-grade authors and also those wacky lawyers.’. That the Tolkien Estate are suing the American author Steve Hillard of. Contrast ...
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Translation: The Death of Bede | For I Have Tasted the Fruit
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For I Have Tasted the Fruit. It gives you Life/To Knowledge…. Translation: The Death of Bede. Fore them neidfaerae naenig uuiurthit. Thoncsnottura than him tharf sie,. To ymbhycggannae, aer his hiniongae,. Huaet his gastae godaes aeththa yflaes. Aefter deothdaege doemid uueorthae. Depiction of Death; the struggle for the dying man’s soul. Before that needful-journey no-one becomes. Wiser than it is necessary for him. To consider, before his going-hence,. What his soul by way of good or evil. Aside from n...
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The Kingdom of Strathclyde « Senchus
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Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. This page shows a list of my blogposts dealing with the realm of the Clyde Britons in its several manifestations (Damnonii/Dumnonii, Alt Clut, Ystrad Clud). Those marked HK are published at. Heart of the Kingdom. My website about early medieval Govan. Those marked SASVA are at the blog associated with my book. Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age. The rest can be found here at. The Bride of King Dyfnwal.
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Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. 8216;an approachable introduction to the written sources of early medieval Scotland and the constantly changing kingships and allegiances of the period’. 8211; Elizabeth Pierce (. The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings. Available from Amazon UK. For more information about this book click here. 8216;a valuable resource’. 8211; Jessie Denholm (. The Picts: a History. Available from Amazon UK. Available from Amazon UK. One obser...
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A Roman reference to Pictish tattoos « Senchus
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Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. A Roman reference to Pictish tattoos. Flavius Stilicho, with his wife and son, portrayed on an ivory carving of c.395 AD, now in Monza Cathedral, Italy. (photograph from. 8216;there came the legion, shield of the frontier Britons,. Check of the grim Scot,. Whose men had watched the life leave the tattoos on the dying Pict.’. But what makes these lines of verse especially fascinating is the reference to Pictish tattoos. This may have originated...
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Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic: February 2014
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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Monday, 10 February 2014. Events of Irish interest during Seachtain na Gaeilge (1 -17 March, 2014). 03 March, 2014. 8216; Medical Writing in Early Modern Irish, 1350-1600. Professor Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha. School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), a specialist on Irish medical texts and Irish manuscripts, will deliver a lecture at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Graduate Research Seminar on 3 March, 2014, at 5pm. 04 March, 2014.
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Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic: March 2015
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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Undiscovered poems in the Black Book of Carmarthen? On the National Library of Wales website. National Library of Wales. Monday, 23 March 2015. A Centenary: David Jones, Y Gododdin and the Great War. Finally get round to asking me about my favourite piece of art in Cambridge, I’ll say ‘ Vexilla Regis. There are lots of things I like about Vexilla Regis. One is the title, taken from a hymn by a Merovingian court poet:. Vexilla regis prodeunt,. All thr...
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Papers versus Mendeley: the mobile wars | Astu's science blog
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Astu’s science blog. About science, its happenings and the links with our world. Let’s save Punta de Choros. IPad in Research 1.0. Papers versus Mendeley: the mobile wars. September 29, 2010. One of the goals of this blog is to keep you posted with my experiences about Mac in research. However, the future is here, and mobile devices are staying for long. The launch of iPad opened a new battlefield: which software would come to colonize iPad’s bibliographic management? The battle seemed unfair from the be...
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