Journals
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2023
Vol.:
118
N°:
4
pp.
603 - 604
Journal:
MEMORIA Y CIVILIZACION. ANUARIO DE HISTORIA
ISSN:
1139-0107
Year:
2023
Vol.:
26
N°:
2
pp.
9 - 23
Pearlis a Middle English dream-poem in London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero A.x, of about 1400. It is attributed to the same author as the scriptural poems Patience and Cleanness and the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knightalso found in this manuscript. The four texts provide abundant information on fourteenth-century social life, including religion, particularly for devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Analysis of Marian imagery in Pearl and its related poems thus tells us much on the attitudes to Christ's mother of a high-ranking provincial layman of about 1390, especially for her as 'Queen of Heaven' and 'Queen of Courtesy', the latter term denoting the values of court society. Such analysis also tends to confirm attribution on other grounds of the four poems to Sir John Stanley (d. 1414), a magnate and courtier who in the last thirty years of his life dominated the politics of the Lancashire Cheshire region of north-west England.
Journal:
RILCE. REVISTA DE FILOLOGIA HISPANICA
ISSN:
0213-2370
Year:
2023
Vol.:
39
N°:
1
pp.
167 - 184
Sir Modred fue sobrino del rey Arturo de la leyenda; Medrawd fue un leal camarada del Arturo histórico. En la leyenda, Modred es un traidor y rebelde que mata a su tío. En la historia, Medrawd fue un guerrero que cayó (junto a Arturo) en el año 537 d.C. en «Camlan» (identificado como la fortificación de Castlesteads, cerca de Carlisle, en el norte de Inglaterra). Los bardos galeses recordaron a Medrawd largo tiempo como un héroe, mientras que los lectores españoles han conocido a Modred como un traidor desde la Edad Media. Así pues, este trabajo tiene tres objetivos. Primero, mostrar a Medrawd como un personaje histórico, un héroe del norte de Inglaterra en el siglo VI, como fue el propio Arturo. Segundo, exponer cómo la reputación de Medrawd quedó ensombrecida para siempre en el siglo XII por obra de Godofredo de Monmouth. Tercero, proponer una etimología para Medrawd, que es una forma británica no relacionada con la córnica Modred que Godofredo aplicó al guerrero, con su habitual desdén hacia la historia.
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2022
Vol.:
117
N°:
4
pp.
701 - 702
Journal:
ENGLISH STUDIES
ISSN:
0013-838X
Year:
2022
Vol.:
103
N°:
2
pp.
365 - 366
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2021
Vol.:
116
N°:
2
pp.
355 - 356
Journal:
SELIM JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ISSN:
1132-631X
Year:
2021
Vol.:
26
N°:
1
pp.
137 - 150
Most commentators on Riddles 48 and 59 in the tenth-century Exeter Book relate them to church plate, the solution supposedly being a gold paten or chalice or pyx. Yet these answers are not compelling. Problems remain. Recent discussion of the Malmesbury Ciborium and other twelfth-century ciboria in London or New York now permits a fresh approach. The solution to both Old English riddles will be ciborium, a vessel of precious metal used to contain consecrated wafers or hosts at the eucharist. The Malmesbury Ciborium and similar pieces make this clear. Round and made of gold, they had a shorter and squatter outline than a chalice; they possessed lids, inscriptions, and representations of Bible scenes (the Crucifixion amongst them); they were yet larger than a pyx (used not in services but to carry a few wafers only, as on visits to the sick). These aspects parallel those of the object in the two riddles: a ring-like item of gold which is gazed upon and revered by people in a hall, which makes no noise and yet conveys a message of salvation, and which (in the second riddle) displays Christ¿s wounds. If this analysis is sound, it deepens understanding of early English poetry. It also informs us on Anglo-Saxon goldsmiths, who produced magnificent works of art (as the literary sources prove) now lost, the gold having long been melted down for the purpose of exchange or as loot. ...
Journal:
MEMORIA Y CIVILIZACION. ANUARIO DE HISTORIA
ISSN:
1139-0107
Year:
2021
Vol.:
24
pp.
341-357
The Book of Taliesin (now at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth) is a fourteenth-century manuscript of Welsh poetry, with some of its material going back to the late sixth century. But it includes poems of later date. Amongst them are three political prophecies: 'Taliesin's Verdant Song'; 'The Contention of Gwynedd and Deheubarth'; 'A Short Poem About Lludd's Discussion'. The first two are of the tenth century, the last of the eleventh. What follows deals with place-names in each. The first can be shown to allude to the English victory over Vikings and Scots at Brunanburh, near Durham, in 937. It is therefore somewhat later, of the period 940 to 987, and not of before 937, as has been thought. The second, dated to 942 x 960, is a polemic by a poet of Gwynedd or north-west Wales against the men of Deheubarth or southern Wales. Its author makes mocking reference to places which can be identified as in North Britain or on the Welsh border: even if Gwynedd's enemies flee there, they will not escape vengeance. Of most interest to Spanish readers is the third text. Its obscure references to enemies will be to Arab and Berber invaders of Andalusia in 1086, after which Alphonso VI appealed for international help. The poem can hence be dated to 1087 or 1088, and will be the earliest reference to Spain in Welsh poetry.
Journal:
SELIM JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ISSN:
1132-631X
Year:
2021
Vol.:
26
N°:
1
pp.
129 - 136
Wulfstan¿s description of his voyage to the Baltic is an addition to the Old English Orosius. It contains a notorious crux, as follows. Wulfstan (otherwise unknown) sailed to Truso, a trading-place near the mouth of the Vistula. Anglo-Saxonists and others have long identified Truso as somewhere on Lake Dru¿no, near Elbl¿g, Poland. But in 1985 the Polish philologist Stanis¿aw Rospond disproved that. He regarded Truso as Tczew on the lower Vistula. Tczew (in German, Dirschau) is attested in early documents with forms (Trsow, Trssew, Treseu) that are compatible with Truso. Those for Drausensee or Lake Dru¿no (recorded in 1233 as Drusin) are not compatible with Truso. They start with the wrong letter and have an internal <n> absent from spellings of Tczew. His conclusions have nevertheless been ignored, despite their implications for English history and Polish or Viking archaeology.
Journal:
VOPROSY ONOMASTIKI
ISSN:
1994-2400
Year:
2021
Vol.:
18
N°:
1
pp.
128 - 139
The article deals with the ancient name of the longest river solely in England, the Trent, flowing past Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham to the north Sea. In a passage that has raised debate and led to a number of misinterpretations in literature, Tacitus recorded it as (emended) Trisantona, which has been explained from Old Irish set 'course' and Welsh hynt 'path' as 'trespasser, one that overflows' (of a stream liable to flood). Trisantona or the like would be the name of other rivers, including the Tarrant in Dorset and Tarannon or Trannon in mid-Wales. Yet the interpretation 'trespasser' has grave phonetic and semantic defects. They are removed by a new etymology on the basis of old Irish set 'treasure' (Modern Irish seoid) and Welsh chwant 'desire' from hypothetical Common Celtic *suanto-. The paper provides textual, historical and linguistic arguments supporting this etymological interpretation. Trisantona or (preferably) reconstructed *Trisuantona (from *Tresuantona) would thus (instead of 'trespasser, flooder') mean 'she of great desire, she who is much loved.' The implication is that the trent (like the English rivers Dee 'goddess' or Brent 'she who is exalted') was regarded as a celtic female deity, a passionate and perhaps dangerous entity.
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2020
Vol.:
115
N°:
2
pp.
441 - 442
Journal:
MODERN PHILOLOGY
ISSN:
0026-8232
Year:
2020
Vol.:
117
N°:
3
pp.
144 - 147
Journal:
MEDIUM AEVUM
ISSN:
0025-8385
Year:
2020
Vol.:
89
N°:
2
pp.
389 - 390
Journal:
HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. TRANSACTIONS
ISSN:
0140-332X
Year:
2020
Vol.:
169
N°:
1
pp.
155 - 167
Journal:
REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
ISSN:
0034-6551
Year:
2019
Vol.:
70
N°:
297
pp.
957 - 959
Journal:
SELIM JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ISSN:
1132-631X
Year:
2019
Vol.:
24
pp.
175 - 176
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2019
Vol.:
114
N°:
1
pp.
107 - 108
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2019
Vol.:
114
N°:
1
pp.
107 - 108
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2019
Vol.:
114
N°:
2
pp.
346 - 347
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2019
Vol.:
114
N°:
2
pp.
346 - 347
Journal:
ROCZNIKI HUMANISTYCZNE
ISSN:
0035-7707
Year:
2019
Vol.:
67
N°:
11
pp.
7 - 16
Cirencester, some fifty kilometres west of Oxford, is an English town on the site of a Roman city. Even though its original name (after Ptolemy in the second century CE) was supposedly Corinium, giving the Ciren- of Cirencester, this has never had a satisfying etymology. However, Welsh car 'friend' or Irish cara 'friend' may now permit emendation of Corinium to Carinium 'place of Carinos,' a personal form known elsewhere. It means 'little beloved one, little friend' and is compatible with development to Ciren-. If so, the mystery surrounding Cirencester, capital of the Dobunni, will be solved. The first Carinium would be the nearby Iron Age citadel of Bagendon Dykes. When the Romans occupied the area, they founded a city five kilometres away, transferring local people to it and applying the name of the old settlement to the new one, as elsewhere in Britain (Colchester, St Albans, Wroxeter). Modem Cirencester will thus (it seems) be called after Carinus or Carinos, an otherwise unknown Briton who occupied land at Bagendon some two millennia ago.
Journal:
VOPROSY ONOMASTIKI
ISSN:
1994-2400
Year:
2019
Vol.:
16
N°:
3
pp.
205 - 211
York, a cathedral city in the north of England, was the Eburacum or Colonia Eburacensis of Roman Britain. Its name has usually been explained from Irish iubhar 'yew tree' (or alternatively from Welsh efwr 'hogweed') and so 'place where yew trees grow'; or else as containing the British(-Latin) personal name Eburus plus the suffix -aco-, and so 'estate of Eburus' (with commentators wavering between the two). The author provides an overview of the etymological interpretations suggested in literarure and adduces arguments in favour of the second explanation. The yew tree (Taxus baccata) is typically found in dry woodland and scrub, often on chalk. It hates wet soil, which York has in plenty, for it occupies a low-lying site at the junction of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. Damp and subject to flooding, York is no place for yew trees. A direct link with yews may be rejected and a sense 'estate of Eburus' accepted with confidence, even if Eburus (somewhat confusingly) itself meant 'he who lives by a yew tree'. The implications of topographical factors for the name of York may be recalled on other dubious etymologies in Watts's 2004 dictionary, including 'port with deep water' for Dunwich, 'water, pool' for London, 'fort of a breast-shaped hill' for Manchester, or 'fork, watershed' for the Isle of Wight.
Journal:
SELIM JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ISSN:
1132-631X
Year:
2019
Vol.:
24
N°:
1
pp.
149 - 156
Journal:
THE JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS
ISSN:
2169-5865
Year:
2019
Vol.:
7
N°:
1
pp.
12 - 27
Journal:
WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE
ISSN:
0262-6608
Year:
2019
Vol.:
112
pp.
262 - 265
Journal:
YORKSHIRE DIALECT SOCIETY. TRANSACTIONS
ISSN:
0954-6316
Year:
2019
Vol.:
23
N°:
119
pp.
6 - 16
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2018
Vol.:
113
N°:
1
pp.
223 - 224
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2018
Vol.:
113
pp.
638 - 639
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2018
Vol.:
113
N°:
4
pp.
851 - 852
Journal:
MODERN PHILOLOGY
ISSN:
0026-8232
Year:
2018
Vol.:
116
N°:
1
pp.
E40 - E42
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2018
Vol.:
44
pp.
47 - 59
Journal:
HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. TRANSACTIONS
ISSN:
0140-332X
Year:
2018
Vol.:
167
pp.
1 - 19
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2018
Vol.:
44
pp.
37 - 46
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2018
Vol.:
44
pp.
27 - 36
Journal:
STUDIA CELTICA POSNANIENSIA
ISSN:
2451-4160
Year:
2018
Vol.:
3
N°:
1
pp.
47 - 62
In a previous issue of this journal, Natasha Sumner of Harvard claimed of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi that the ¿exact date of composition for the text is not known¿; she yet quoted Professor Catherine McKenna, also of Harvard, for the tales as certainly predating the Fall of Gwynedd in 1282. A response to Professor Sumner¿s comment thus has three functions. It cites publications on the question from 1897 to 2018; reveals the scholarly disagreement therein; but concludes with evidence to put the tales in the 1120s or early 1130s
Journal:
TRANSACTIONS OF THE CUMBERLAND & WESTMORLAND ANTIQUARIAN & ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ISSN:
0309-7986
Year:
2018
Vol.:
18
pp.
288 - 290
Journal:
VOPROSY ONOMASTIKI
ISSN:
1994-2400
Year:
2018
Vol.:
15
N°:
3
pp.
202 - 211
Doncaster, known to the Romans as Danum, is a town on the River Don, Yorkshire. Its British-Latin name (deriving from that of the river) has been obscure: although interpretations 'wet' or 'bold' or 'flowing' have been proposed from alleged parallels with the Danube, Dnieper, Don, or Rhone of the European continent, they are inconclusive, because they lack equivalents in Brittonic. A new etymology is needed. The one suggested here is 'gift; gifted one' or even 'she who brings gifts' (designating a river nymph). It is supported directly by the Welsh word dawn 'gift' and indirectly by the River Annan of Scotland, recorded in British-Latin as Anava, a form related to Welsh anau, 'wealth, riches, largess, bounty, gift' and presumably reflecting Celtic belief in the stream as a bountiful goddess. The Yorkshire Don (like the River Don of Tyneside) would thus have a name explicable in purely Celtic terms. Reference to lndoIranian, legitimately applied to continental rivers including the Russian Don and Dnieper, can here be dropped. Besides this, Doncaster can be proved as unrelated both to the "Cair Dann" of Ilistoria Brittonum's Twenty-Eight Cities of Britain (where the toponym is surely a corniption of Cali-Dam or Cardiff), and to the goddess Don of the twelfth-century Four Branches of the Mabinogi. On the other hand, the Yorkshire Don can be shown as a namesake not only of the River Don of Tyneside, but of the River Doon in south-west Scotland
Journal:
VOPROSY ONOMASTIKI
ISSN:
1994-2400
Year:
2017
Vol.:
14
N°:
3
pp.
204 - 209
The Goodwin Sands are a hazard to shipping in the English Channel. Their name means "good friend" and is often taken as euphemistic or propitiatory. Alternatively, in a legend with Celtic parallels, the sands have been regarded as an island which belonged to Earl Godwine (d. 1053), but was drowned by natural disaster. Science shows, however, that the Goodw ins have never been land within historic times. Their name can thus have nothing to do with Godwine of Wessex. Nor is it an attempt to flatter a feared entity. The author argues that the name should be explained instead by reference to the Downs, an anchorage between the sands and the Kent coast. Dangerous to mariners, the Goodwins are nevertheless a natural breakwater, by creating the calm water of the Downs, they really were a "good friend" to seafarers. The interpretation has an equivalent with the Manacles, "stones of refuge," off the Cornish coast. The Goodwins and Manacles have wrecked many ships, but saved far more, the first as a barrier against storms in the Channel. the second as one against storms in the Atlantic. Their names will hence display the same naming pattern.
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2017
Vol.:
42
N°:
1
pp.
4 - 6
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2017
Vol.:
112
N°:
3
pp.
693 - 694
Journal:
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
ISSN:
0026-7937
Year:
2017
Vol.:
112
N°:
2
pp.
479 - 480
Journal:
WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE
ISSN:
0262-6608
Year:
2017
Vol.:
110
pp.
222 - 223
Journal:
VOPROSY ONOMASTIKI
ISSN:
1994-2400
Year:
2017
Vol.:
14
N°:
1
pp.
56 - 65
The paper focuses on the problem of identification of Caer Urfe, one of the Twenty-Eight Cities of Britain listed by John Leland (d. 1552) from Henry of Huntingdon (d. 1155) after the ninth-century Historia Brittonum. Many of the twenty-eight have defied identification; but Leland¿s proposal of Tynemouth for Caer Urfe is now maintained by archaeologists on Tyneside, in the north of England. The author argues that Caer Urfe is to be associated with St Cynfarch, near Chepstow, in south-east Wales. It is one of ten Welsh religious communities named in the catalogue together with cathedral cities and ancient British hillforts, none of them on Tyneside. The paper also examines the case of Arbeia, recorded by Notitia Dignitatum as the name of the Roman fort at South Shields, Tyneside. The author shows that Arbeia has no link with Caer Urfe, nor does it mean `Arabs,¿ supposedly relating to the garrisoning there after 300 CE of troops from Iraq. Many Roman forts in Britain were called after streams close to them; Arbeia is hence best understood on the basis of Welsh erfin `turnips,¿ also the name of a stream near Aberystwyth, as `<fort by a> stream noted for wild turnips¿. The article is supplemented with an appendix containing a list of the twenty-eight cities from Leland¿s catalogue, with toponyms rectified after the twelfth-century Book of Llandaff and other Welsh documents
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2017
Vol.:
43
pp.
72 - 78
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2017
Vol.:
42
N°:
2
pp.
44 - 49
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2017
Vol.:
42
N°:
1
pp.
13 - 15
Journal:
THE JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS
ISSN:
2169-5865
Year:
2016
Vol.:
5
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 16
Journal:
VOPROSY ONOMASTIKI
ISSN:
1994-2400
Year:
2016
Vol.:
13
N°:
1
pp.
30 - 42
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078172X
Year:
2016
Vol.:
53
N°:
2
pp.
161 - 172
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2016
Vol.:
41
N°:
10
pp.
315 - 319
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2016
Vol.:
41
N°:
10
pp.
302 - 308
Journal:
VOPROSY ONOMASTIKI
ISSN:
1994-2400
Year:
2016
Vol.:
13
N°:
1
pp.
30 - 42
The article focuses on the localization of the martyrdom of the British saints Aaron and Julius, known of solely from Gildas, writing in the early 530s. His remarks were taken up by Bede (d. 737), so that the two saints have never been forgotten, their cult surviving to this day. The author provides a detailed survey of discussion of Aaron and Julius over the centuries, and argues that their martyrdom was neither at Caerleon (in south-east Wales) nor Chester (in north-west England), as suggested by numerous scholars, but at Leicester, another major city of Roman Britain. Working from epigraphic sources and taking into account ancient models of naming, the author attempts a reinterpretation of Legionum urbs in the original texts by emending it to Legorum urbs ¿city of the Legores,¿ the Celtic people of the Leicester region. The latter, by the time of Gildas, was occupied by the Angles, while the city itself was abandoned, which may explain Gildas¿s remarks, otherwise unclear if one identifies Legionum urbs with Caerleon or Chester. The author adduces both historical and linguistic arguments for his proposal and shows that it sheds new light on the history of early British Christianity
Journal:
TRANSACTIONS OF THE WORCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ISSN:
0143-2389
Year:
2016
Vol.:
25
pp.
155 - 162
Journal:
HERTFORDSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY
ISSN:
1752-7406
Year:
2016
Vol.:
17
pp.
97 - 98
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078172X
Year:
2016
Vol.:
53
N°:
1
pp.
138 - 145
Journal:
SCRIPTA DE MARIA
ISSN:
0210-6620
Year:
2016
Vol.:
13
pp.
267 - 279
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2016
Vol.:
42
pp.
71 - 81
Journal:
THE JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS
ISSN:
2169-5865
Year:
2015
Vol.:
4
N°:
1
pp.
20 - 30
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2015
Vol.:
52
N°:
2
pp.
158 - 181
The twelve battles of Arthur listed by the ninth-century Historia Brittonum have been an intractable problem. This paper gives an outline of discussion past and present, before offering some conclusions on where the conflicts were and what they imply for the historical Arthur and Northern history in the sixth century; for it seems that each of these engagements ( excepting Mount Badon) can be located in Northumberland or southern Scotland, with the implication that Arthur himself was a North Briton and specifically a Strathclyder
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2015
Vol.:
52
N°:
1
pp.
9 - 19
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2015
Vol.:
52
N°:
1
pp.
9 - 19
The article discusses about issues in Northern history focusing on the location of Gwen Ystrad where king Urien Rheged lead Britons and repelled an attack by Pictish sea-raiders. It is noted that early Brythonic poet Taliesin described this battle in his poem. Topics include Welsh poetry and prose, poetic translations, analysis of early poetry by British scholar Rachel Bromwich, essays on Welsh tradition by Sir Idris Foster, and local government reforms in Great Britain
Journal:
NEOPHILOLOGUS
ISSN:
0028-2677
Year:
2014
Vol.:
98
N°:
2
pp.
337 - 341
Marks on the Maiden's skin in the Middle English poem Pearl have been taken to indicate that she died of plague. Because outbreaks of plague in fourteenth-century England can be dated, this suggests that Pearl may date from the early 1390s
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2014
Vol.:
51
N°:
1
pp.
177 - 182
Journal:
THE JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS
ISSN:
2169-5865
Year:
2014
Vol.:
3
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 4
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2014
Vol.:
51
N°:
1
pp.
177 - 182
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2014
Vol.:
41
N°:
5
pp.
157 - 159
Journal:
NEOPHILOLOGUS
ISSN:
0028-2677
Year:
2014
Vol.:
98
N°:
2
pp.
337 - 341
Marks on the Maiden's skin in the Middle English poem Pearl have been taken to indicate that she died of plague. Because outbreaks of plague in fourteenth-century England can be dated, this suggests that Pearl may date from the early 1390s
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2014
Vol.:
61
N°:
2
pp.
201 - 202
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2014
Vol.:
61
N°:
2
pp.
201 - 202
The potential meaning of the term 'saggard' in the York play of the 'Death of Christ' is discussed. The term was commonly construed as a noun from the word 'sag.' However, it could also denote the mocking of Christ as a 'sagari,' the Irish and Scottish Gaelic word for priest
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2014
Vol.:
41
N°:
5
pp.
137 - 138
Journal:
EOS: COMMENTARII SOCIETATIS PHILOLOGIAE POLONORUM
ISSN:
0012-7825
Year:
2014
Vol.:
101
N°:
2
pp.
311 - 323
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2014
Vol.:
41
N°:
5
pp.
146 - 147
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2013
Vol.:
41
N°:
3
pp.
80 - 81
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2013
Vol.:
39
pp.
94 - 98
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2013
Vol.:
50
N°:
1
pp.
115 - 119
The article discusses the Battle of Chester fought in Northumbria, England between the English forces of Northumbria led by King Æthelfrith against the Britons of Wales dated alternately to 613 or 615. It considers the battle's conflicted historiography in accounts written by historians including Geoffrey of Monmouth, Charles Edwards, and Theophilus Evans. It focuses particularly to references to King Cetula, who fell during the battle. The author proposes that the name "Cetula" was actually the result of a scribal transposition and was actually meant to render the name Cetual, a period variant of the Welsh name Cadwal or Catgual, attributed as King Cadwal of Rhos
Journal:
WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE
ISSN:
0262-6608
Year:
2013
Vol.:
106
pp.
263 - 264
Journal:
SCRIPTA DE MARIA
ISSN:
0210-6620
Year:
2013
Vol.:
10
pp.
101 - 121
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2013
Vol.:
41
N°:
3
pp.
84 - 85
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2013
Vol.:
50
N°:
2
pp.
170 - 179
The ninth-century Historia Brittonum states that the first wife of Oswiu (d. 670) of Northumbria was Rhiainfellt, daughter of 'Royth', the son of Rhun. It states also that Rhun son of Urien baptised Edwin of Northumbria. That would have been in 627. But because neither fact is mentioned by Bede, historians have impugned both from Victorian times to the present. A survey of discussion hence tells us much of modern historians' attitudes; analysis of material suggests that the Welsh sources here tell a truth suppressed by Bede. The Welsh version would be confirmed by textual emendation of the name 'Royth', which is corrupt. It is surely Old Welsh Reyth, giving Rhaith 'right, justness' in today's Welsh, an appropriate name for a British cleric's son, as opposed to the ferociously warlike ones usually possessed by the early Celtic ruling class
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2013
Vol.:
39
pp.
83 - 93
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2013
Vol.:
41
N°:
3
pp.
97 - 99
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
1
pp.
17 - 19
Journal:
LEEDS STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ISSN:
0075-8566
Year:
2012
Vol.:
43
pp.
117 - 119
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
1
pp.
4 - 6
Journal:
STUDIA CELTICA
ISSN:
0081-6353
Year:
2012
Vol.:
46
pp.
191 - 194
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
2
pp.
65 - 66
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2012
Vol.:
49
N°:
1
pp.
129 - 133
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
2
pp.
54 - 56
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
2
pp.
48 - 52
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2012
Vol.:
49
N°:
2
pp.
345 - 350
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2012
Vol.:
49
N°:
1
pp.
129 - 133
Journal:
RADNOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY. BULLETIN
ISSN:
0483-8785
Year:
2012
Vol.:
82
pp.
111 - 112
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
2
pp.
63 - 64
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
2
pp.
44-44
Journal:
DENBIGHSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
ISSN:
040-8844
Year:
2012
Vol.:
60
pp.
9 - 18
Journal:
THE WELSH JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
ISSN:
0967-3938
Year:
2012
Vol.:
7-8
pp.
1 - 23
The article presents an exploration into the historiography and hagiography of the 5th-century Scottish Christian figure of Saint Ninian. Arguments are made asserting that St. Ninian did not exist as a historical person. Topics addressed include an overview of references to Ninian from historians Charles Edwards, W. Douglas Simpson, and Hartwell Jones; the absence of archaeological evidence, and scholastic criticism of the church history of Venerable Bede
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2012
Vol.:
41
N°:
1
pp.
33 - 34
Journal:
THE WELSH JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
ISSN:
0967-3938
Year:
2012
Vol.:
7-8
pp.
199 - 211
The article presents discussion of the place names referenced within the 13th-century Welsh Christian poem "The Saints and Martyrs of Christendom," found within the Book of Taliesin codex. Introductory details are given outlining the difficulties inherent in interpreting the text due to numerous typographical and scribal errors. Suggestions are then given for deciphering several place names in connection to Biblical geography
Journal:
THE JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS
ISSN:
2169-5865
Year:
2012
Vol.:
2
N°:
1
pp.
1 - 9
Journal:
ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL
ISSN:
0003-5815
Year:
2012
Vol.:
92
pp.
109 - 114
The location of Argistillum in the Ravenna Cosmography has been obscure. This paper uses linguistic and historical analysis to suggest that it was the Roman fort at Caersws, in the cantref (district) of Arwystli, still with a name relatable to Argistillum
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2012
Vol.:
38
pp.
89 - 135
Journal:
AUSTRALIAN CELTIC JOURNAL
ISSN:
1030-2611
Year:
2012
Vol.:
10
pp.
107 - 114
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2011
Vol.:
40
N°:
10
pp.
291 - 292
Journal:
SELIM JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ISSN:
1132-631X
Year:
2011
N°:
18
pp.
169 - 171
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2011
Vol.:
40
N°:
10
pp.
304 - 306
Journal:
THE JOURNAL OF LITERARY ONOMASTICS
ISSN:
2169-5865
Year:
2011
Vol.:
1
N°:
1
pp.
5 - 8
Journal:
TRANSACTIONS (STAFFORDSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY)
ISSN:
1479-6368
Year:
2011
Vol.:
45
pp.
107 - 108
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2011
N°:
48
pp.
147 - 152
Journal:
THE WELSH JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
ISSN:
0967-3938
Year:
2011
Vol.:
6
pp.
115 - 121
A literary criticism is presented on the Welsh ecclesiastical text "Braint Teilo" in the "Book of Llandaff," investigating the use and etymology of the term gundy. It is said that the word is derived from the Welsh word cun, which was used to refer to both lords and God, and that cundy means house of the Lord or church
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2011
Vol.:
40
N°:
10
pp.
298 - 301
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2011
Vol.:
40
N°:
10
pp.
291 - 292
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2011
Vol.:
40
N°:
10
pp.
295 - 297
Journal:
SELIM JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ISSN:
1132-631X
Year:
2011
N°:
18
pp.
165 - 168
Journal:
STUDIA CELTICA
ISSN:
0081-6353
Year:
2011
Vol.:
45
pp.
203 - 209
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2011
Vol.:
58
N°:
2
pp.
192 - 193
The article discusses the etymology of the Scots term 'in a rane', meaning 'continuously'. According to the author, it may be derived from the Gaelic 'rond' or 'ronn', meaning 'chain'
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2011
Vol.:
58
N°:
3
pp.
368 - 369
The article discusses the origin of the word 'slammakin', meaning 'slovenly female, slattern', commonly used in the 18th and 19th centuries
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2011
Vol.:
58
N°:
1
pp.
56 - 56
The article discusses the possible meaning of the Hiberno-English word 'strone', which may be derived from the Irish word 'sruthán'.
Journal:
WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE
ISSN:
0262-6608
Year:
2011
Vol.:
104
pp.
256 - 257
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2011
Vol.:
48
N°:
1
pp.
145 - 146
Journal:
ENGLISH PLACE-NAME SOCIETY. JOURNAL
ISSN:
1351-3095
Year:
2011
Vol.:
43
pp.
71 - 74
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2011
Vol.:
58
N°:
1
pp.
118 - 118
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2011
Vol.:
37
pp.
169 - 181
The article focuses on the places in West Midland, England which were all associated with English poet A.E. Housman. The British-Latin name of Worcester is highlighted which is the birthplace of Housman. The places Buildwas and Uricon are also emphasized which are mentioned in the collection of poems titled "A Shropshire Lad," by Housman
Journal:
QUAESTIO INSULARIS
ISSN:
1745-8676
Year:
2010
Vol.:
11
pp.
209 - 214
Journal:
TRANSACTIONS OF THE WORCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ISSN:
0143-2389
Year:
2010
Vol.:
22
pp.
83 - 86
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2010
Vol.:
57
N°:
4
pp.
475 - 476
The article discusses possible definitions and etymologies of the word "doif" as it appears in the poem "Testament of Cresseid," by Scottish poet Robert Henryson. The author believes the word could be a loan word from the Middle Irish or Old Norse languages. Emphasis is given to the anglicization of words in Scottish poetry. A possible translation of the word is "dull"
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2010
Vol.:
57
N°:
2
pp.
195 - 196
A literary criticism examining the use of the word "doolie" in the poem "The Testament of Cresseid," by Robert Henryson, is presented. The author notes speculation by scholars such as Douglas Gray and Denton Fox regarding the meaning of the word and how the etymology of the word reveals its relation to other words from Scottish Gaelic dialects that mean "dismal." The author suggests that Henryson's use of the word reveals the time frame for changes in the Gaelic language
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2010
Vol.:
57
N°:
4
pp.
474 - 474
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2010
Vol.:
57
N°:
4
pp.
474 - 475
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht" by Scottish William Dunbar. The author analyzes the use of the word mychane in the line "With moderis mylk yit in your mychane," and suggests that the word is derived from the Gaelic word for abdomen, maothain. Similar Old Irish, Latin, and Scots words are also explored
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND DORSET
ISSN:
0029-3989
Year:
2010
Vol.:
36
N°:
372
pp.
429 - 430
Journal:
ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL
ISSN:
0003-5815
Year:
2010
Vol.:
90
pp.
131 - 138
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2010
Vol.:
47
N°:
1
pp.
155 - 162
Journal:
NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0029-3970
Year:
2010
Vol.:
57
N°:
2
pp.
168 - 168
Journal:
SCOTTISH LANGUAGE
ISSN:
0264-0198
Year:
2010
Vol.:
29
pp.
1 - 15
Journal:
SELIM JOURNAL OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR MEDIAEVAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ISSN:
1132-631X
Year:
2010
N°:
17
pp.
175 - 180
Journal:
TRANSACTIONS OF THE CAERNARVONSHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ISSN:
0144-0098
Year:
2010
Vol.:
71
pp.
29 - 31
Journal:
THE WELSH JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
ISSN:
0967-3938
Year:
2010
Vol.:
5
pp.
79 - 83
The article presents an examination into the early church history of Wales, focusing on disparate accounts regarding St. Kea, Archbishop of Colfa in the late-5th century and various sites and locations associated with him. Details are given describing the folklore and historical narratives surrounding St. Kea's hermitage in Colfa. Further investigations are provided regarding medieval drama associating St. Kea with "Colan," which the author asserts is the same as Colfa. Connections between St. Kea and St. David of Wales are also discussed
Journal:
ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA
ISSN:
0066-5894
Year:
2010
Vol.:
130
pp.
385 - 387
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2010
Vol.:
40
N°:
8
pp.
240 - 241
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2010
Vol.:
40
N°:
7
pp.
210 - 211
Journal:
DEVON AND CORNWALL NOTES AND QUERIES
ISSN:
0012-1681
Year:
2010
Vol.:
40
N°:
8
pp.
232 - 233
Journal:
SCOTTISH GAELIC STUDIES
ISSN:
0080-8024
Year:
2010
Vol.:
26
pp.
1 - 3
Journal:
HOUSMAN SOCIETY JOURNAL
ISSN:
0305-926X
Year:
2010
Vol.:
36
pp.
154 - 157
The article examines the interpretation and meaning of the term Corve in the poem "A Shropshire Lad XXXVII," by A. E. Housman. According to the author, of the river-names used in the poem, the names Teme and Severn are distinguished as Celtic but the exception has been the Corve since it is located at the south of Wenlock Edge. It also discusses the link between the Corve and the term corbibus in the Juvenal and the idea that the term reflects the early history of Shropshire, England
Journal:
VOPROSY FILOLOGII
ISSN:
1562-1391
Year:
2010
Vol.:
3
N°:
36
pp.
51 - 56
Journal:
NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:
0078-172X
Year:
2010
Vol.:
47
N°:
2
pp.
319 - 328
A map in the National Archives dated to 1531 showing part of the Fylde in Lancashire has been published on several occasions; but its relationship to another map in the National Archives has not previously been recognised. These two maps were made by the opposing parties in a dispute before the court of the Duchy of Lancaster, and may be the earliest examples of adversarial map-making in a case before an equity court. The case concerned land which had apparently long been regarded as intercommon, but which was now being claimed to be in exclusive ownership. The newly recognised map was made to illustrate recently acquired documentary evidence as to the ownership of the land in question. This map appears broadly trustworthy, and was accepted as such by the court; but the defence map seems rather to have been designed to mislead. In recent years the defence map has been regarded as evidence for the appearance of the locality concerned in the 1530s, but this study shows that it was in fact regarded by the court as unreliable, thus highlighting the need to treat all maps other than those actually commissioned by the courts themselves as partial and therefore suspect
