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... who may be putting their heads in the sand while still alive.

31.10.2025 17:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet."

31.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

No mention of blood-sucking though (AFAICS) but still appropriate given that Finn "buried him with his head downwards (lest he might effect a resurrection)". In light of other versions where Ábhartach is identified as a dwarf, it's reminiscent of Swift's Lilliputians who "bury their dead with their

31.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Nog twee weken en dan zijn er nieuwe Van Hamel-lezingen (toegang gratis): stichting.vanhamel.nl/Nieuws:VHL2025
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31.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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29.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pleasantly surprised to see this on a #MediaWiki conference: on #MUDCon, Florian Thiery just presented a great rundown of study cases involving the use of #Wikibase software to record archaeological objects and sites, including Ogham stones, Irish holy wells and even Govan stones

29.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

3/3 - it was very timely of @ria.ie to feature this MS as their 'manuscript of the week' - bsky.app/profile/ria.... . Digital images are available from @dias-isos.bsky.social and I hope those of Egerton 1782 in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social will be up (again) in the near future.

27.10.2025 22:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/3 - The source documents used here and presented together for convenience are from our TEI XML workbench (codecs.vanhamel.nl/Show:TEI). Many thanks to John Carey and the editors of Ériu for allowing me to publish a transcription of the fragment in the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. On which note...

27.10.2025 22:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Before you proceed • CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies

1/3 - Just in time for #Samhain night: a parallel text of two editions of the otherworldly Ulster Cycle tale of Echtra Nerai ‘Nera’s adventure’, along with Kuno Meyer’s (admittedly antiquated) translation into English : codecs.vanhamel.nl/Source:TEI/E...

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A white dragon curling itself protectively around a red square while smoke is coming out of its nostrils.

Friends, while we were caught in the whirlwind of the announcement that our Faculty intends to close our programme, we have been quiet here. In part, because we have no words to express our shock and sadness, in part also because we wanted to think about the best way forward. 1/2

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