Marcellus Empiricus: the Medical Book: A selection of Marcellus' medical book, which contains a prayer to the Gaulish god Aisus (Esus) for aid in throat ailments. Marcellus was a Gallic Roman--i.e., though Gaulish, was thoroughly Romanized--but his text contains some remnants of Gaulish concepts.
Claudian: from "Against Rufinus": from the first poem against Rufinus; there is a brief section that mentions an area of the coast of Gaul where one can summon the dead; this leads into the later text below, but also reflects a native idea about an island of the dead.
Procopius: On Britain and Brittia: the first section deals with Britain's loss from the empire; the second section is about another "island of the dead" off the coast of Europe, conflated with some legends about Britain into one island called "Brittia".
Mab a'n Rhodedd: One of the earliest Christmas poems, written by Madog ap Gwallter. Also for Christmas, check out "The Rod of Moses" from the Book of Taliesin; it tells the story of the Magi
The two sorrows of the Kingdom of Heaven: a new translation of the Apocryphal text; with thanks to Nicole Volmering, who offered her translation to the website.
Brut y Tywysogion: The Chronicle of the Princes, translated by William ab Ithel. It's not the best--or even a very good--translation, but it is the only public domain one that I'm aware of.
Actually, nothing new that's ready to upload, just letting folks know I'm still alive and working on the site. It's been a rough summer/autumn, so I haven't been able to devote time to the site. Sorry about that, and hopefully I'll have some new material soon.
The Roll of the Kings: sometimes listed as the final section of the Book of Invasions, this details the history of the kings of Ireland after the Milesians gained the island. This version is the earliest, from the Book of Leinster.
Josephus' Commentary: Josephus, the Jewish historian, made several mentions of the Celts (Celts, Gauls, Galatians), both their rebellions against the Romans, and their presence as soldiers for the Herodian dynasty.
January 3, 2008
Endlicher's Glossary: a ninth(?) century glossary which records a few Gaulish terms.
I haven't updated anything in a while, in part due to an attack of bursitis; however, I've been able to start working on the Brut y Tywysogion again, and hopefully that'll be finished before January.
September 19, 2007
Deipnosophists: Athenaeus' survey of knowledge features a number of comments on the Celts, most of them negative. That's the Greeks for you.
The Scholar's Primer: One of the texts dealing with Ogham, it is also a medieval grammar, and pseudohistory of the Gaelic languages. Next will hopefully be a new edition of Lebor Ogaim, with the ogam codes included.
Baile in Scále: the Phantom's Frenzy: very old translation; the long section of the poem describing each king was not translated. If you really want to read a complete translation, pick up the Irish Text Society's edition from a few years ago.
First, this is cool: CELT, the ultimate collection of Irish texts, has used my copy of Lebor na Cert (ed. Myles Dillon)! CELT is an amazing site, run by the University College Cork; I have a lot of links to them on the Irish Texts page.
Project Gutenberg (how I love Project Gutenberg!) has published Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick, an 1880 translation of the Tripart Life, Jocelin's Vita, the and Confessions and Letter to Coroticus by Patrick. This is great, because I haven't seen the Tripart translated yet (at least not on the web), nor has Jocelin's Vita been on the web before. So I've added the appropriate links under the Celtic Christian page.
May 30, 2006
Things have been quiet--I've been very, very busy, unfortunately: looking for a new job, planning my wedding, dealing with some personal issues. I do have a lot of stuff to add to the site, and I've also added some new texts on late/post-Roman Britain and Gaul, so check out the (slightly rearranged by date) Classical Lit page.
Some day in the future, I'll be able to post things like the Brut Tysillio, The Physicians of Myddfai, and more Irish poetry. Unfortunately, today isn't that day. Hopefully over the summer.
Coming soon: The Bardic Grammar of Einion Offeriad. I just found out where I can get a copy of this, and will hopefully have it scanned sometime this week. After that, the only items in the Red Book of Hergest that I don't have access to are the short pieces and proverbs. Otherwise, I have loads and loads of photocopied diplomatic editions of peices from the book, but they aren't always easy to scan and upload because of the peculiar orthography of Middle Welsh. (w's that look like 6's, etc.). What I don't always have, though, are translations. And that can be a real pain.
March 9, 2006
Ever look for your hat and realize it's on your head? So that's what I went through last night. I found out that despite the first three volumes which didn't really interest me, v.4 of S. Baring-Gould's Lives of the British Saints contains a number of Latin and Welsh texts of interest. So I feel like a bit of a fool, since I had passed on the books years ago as irrelevant to what I needed.
Anyway, I'm currently working to bring some of those texts online. What I currently have is Buchedd Collen and The Life of St. Deiniol. More's coming, too.
March 7, 2006
Added a bunch of Old Welsh texts (and slightly rearranged the Welsh page):
Added Bown of Hamptwn in English; will hopefully edit the Welsh text soon.
Added the History of Gruffydd ap Cynan. I'll hopefully add the Welsh soon, but that's going to take longer to edit, given that the text uses that "w" that looks like a 6.
I added a page of maps that I made concerning Celtic territories in the late Iron Age. There will be a lot of updates to that page, so check it out ever so often.
I was busy photocopying a large chunk of the Myvyrian Archaiology, and am now working the Poetry of the Red Book of Hergest and The Hengwrt Manuscripts again. So more texts are coming, but not for another couple of weeks, since I'm kinda working two jobs right now on top of all this.
I'm also working on a translation of the Welsh genealogies; hopefully I'll finally finish the Harleian 3859, which has been sitting on my hard drive for a couple of years now.
February 2, 2006
Happy Imbolc, everyone!
Some new texts, all related to the Red Book of Hergest:
January 30, 2006
Well, there's some new entries in the JCE, and some new texts in the CLC, specifically new Irish poems, which you'll see over at the Irish texts page.
Also, I've added two new sections: the Recommended page, where I have links to Amazon of books I recommend people read (and yeah, I get a kickback from Amazon, which I'm going to spend on buying more books--what a shock); and the CafePress shop, with some stuff I've designed (and by design I mean I drew stuff by hand and/or edited it in Photoshop). You'll see what I mean.
December 27, 2005
Finally something new! I've just completed and uploaded a new text, the hard-to-find First Battle of Magh Turedh, translated by J. Frazer. I have some other texts I'm preparing to get on the site, so hopefully those will soon find their way here soon. These are the proposed new texts:
A section on Iolo Morgannwg, with some of his forgeries/"improvements".
Anyway, this will all be a while, but luckily, I found a good OCR program (or, it's more like I realized I've had it for many years and never even knew it--boy, I feel stupid), which means the older texts will be easier to convert--less typing over IJg1y inistalces (er, ugly mistakes).
October 21, 2005
Well, I can log into the server now, so I have some new stuff to upload:
July 25, 2005
After lightning struck my house on the 2nd, I wasn't sure I'd be back anytime soon. However, the computer is up and running (and with more memory), though we haven't gotten the internet issue fixed, so I can only post while on break at work. Anyway, I also recieved news today of a new MA in Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Also, I've been able to update Den's comic Donut Box, which will soon be moving off of Yahoo and onto its own server. :)
June 10, 2005
I was on vacation, but I'm back. Updates in the Celtc News Update, and some new texts will be forthcoming. I'm also in the middle of a slight redesign to the site, including finding a good Unicode font. I'll let you know when I've decided on one.
March 29, 2005
Well, as you can see, I'm in the process of redesigning the site to make it more navagable.
January 4, 2005
I've added a whole bunch of classical texts.
December 14, 2004
I've been busy with school, so I haven't been able to update things for a while. However, I did add one new Welsh text, namely The invocation of Gwyn ap Nudd from a Latin manuscript.
October 22, 2004
After being knocked off the server for a while, I'm back on and adding updates.
