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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Happy Burns Night

Lisa L. Spangenberg | January 25, 2010

Robert Burns was born 251 years ago today in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1759. Much to my delight, the BBC has begun a site about Burns, featuring his poetry in partially uncensored form. You can read the true lyrics of “John Anderson My Joe, John,” though “Comin’ through the Rye” is still much expurgated. One [...]

Iron Men, Natural History Magazine, and Simon James

Lisa L. Spangenberg | January 23, 2010

Via the customary cursory glace at my referrals, I noticed that a new article on the Natural History magazine Web site links to me via the following:
At Lisa L. Spangenberg’s Digital Medievalist site you can find a good list of Celtic Web Resources (scroll down). At one of them, Simon James’s Ancient Celts Page, the [...]

Birth of a Blog: Reprise

Lisa L. Spangenberg | January 22, 2010

I began Scéla, my first real blog, on January 21, 2002. That’s eight years of more-or-less regular blogging. You can still read my first post, which is very much an instance of me trying to figure out blogging as a tool for sharing content.
Since then, I’ve finished my Ph.D. I’m now blogging quite a [...]