Barry Cunliffe. The Ancient Celts.
Lisa Spangenberg | December 9, 2011
I started Scéla (this blog) in 2002. I’ve had at least one Christmas-related post almost every year since then. Here they all are: Christmas Eve, 2004 I posted the Christmas story in Old English from Matthew 2, c. 995, taken from Joseph Bosworth, The Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels in Parallel Columns. Christmas 2004, I posted “Ryse, hyrd-men [...]
Lisa Spangenberg | December 2, 2011
We often think of December as an entry to winter and to Christmas. In the middle ages, typically, winter featured much more dramatically than Christmas. The calendar pages in Books of Hours for December often feature an image of either hog butchering, a boar roast, or a boar hunt (sometimes they feature an image of St. John [...]
Lisa Spangenberg | December 1, 2011
I confess that I’ve been so very busy writing about things neither medieval or Celtic, that Scéla has been neglected. And I’ve noticed that my fellow medieval bloggers haven’t been much more active in terms of blogging. I further confess that I’m moving this month. And, perhaps most telling of all, I’m a Christmas junkie. [...]
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Tales. Patrick K. Ford
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