Links

Of course, the obligatory links:

Me:

  • Mary Jones: my other website, which is more expansive on the Celtic front, and covers a lot of my theater work.
  • Donut Box: my boyfriend's comic strip; I'm the webmaster.

    Theater:

  • Surface Tension: My theater/arts company.
  • The Brick Playhouse: another company; the only theater company in Philadelphia entirely dedicated to the creation of new works.
  • The Philly Fringe Festival.

    Celtic:

    Texts

  • Barddas Online: the internet home of Barddas, the notorious text of the sixteenth century, which claims to be the wisdom of the Welsh bards. Read it and judge for yourself.
  • The Camelot Project: An unbelieveable resource for Middle English Arthurian texts.
  • Carmina Gadelica: This website contains the first volume of the Carmina Gadelica, a landmark collection of prayer-spells from Scotland, many of which are a barely-Christianized version of earlier beliefs.
  • CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts: Where you can find all sorts of Irish texts--annals, epics, and so on. Some are translated, others are not.
  • The Celtic Christianity e-Library: containing several texts, such as the imramma and saints' lives.
  • Celtic Twilight: Here you can find Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, Gildas' De Excido, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Middle English.
  • Dan Direach: Translations of medieval Irish poetry.
  • The Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Containing any number of important texts.
  • Ogmios Press: a collection of reprints and facsimilies of early texts, such as the Book of Aneurin, saints' lives, and early Scottish poetry.
  • OISÍN i dTÍR na nÓG: A cute retelling of Oisin in the Land of Youth with pictures by children.
  • Sacred Texts: a wonderful site full of just about every sacred text you can think of; has a nice section of Irish and Welsh medieval texts, as well as folklore.
  • The Sir Thomas Malory Society: Has the whole Le Morte d'Arthur in Modern and Middle English.
  • Trecheng Breth Féne: The Triads of Ireland: a collection of triads from Irish manuscripts, made by Kuno Meyer in 1906.
  • The Ulster Cycle The most complete collection I've yet to find. I do a lot of linking to this site.

    Digital Manuscripts: where you can see the original manuscripts from which these texts are produced--

  • The Digital Mirror's Treasures: The National Library of Wales' efforts to put their manuscripts online as digitized images.
  • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: From the various libraries of the colleges of Oxford, includes the most important Red Book of Hergest (see below). Especially check out the Bodlian Library's collection.
  • Irish Scripts On Screen: includes the Book of Leinster and the Book of the Dun Cow.
  • The Black Book of Carmarthen: The great-aunt of Welsh manuscripts.
  • The Book of Aneirin: Puts the whole Book of Aneirin online, following J.G. Evans' fascimile.
  • The Book of Deer: Part of an extensive project regarding the manuscript.
  • The Book of Kells: where you can order a digital version of the great manuscript.
  • The Book of Taliesin: Yep, the whole book.
  • The Red Book of Hergest: The granddaddy of Welsh manuscripts.
  • The Laws of Hwyll Dda: Contains a good many illustrations, which is unusual in Welsh manuscripts.

    Resources:

  • Academic Links: Nice collection of important links.
  • Bardic Press: A new publishing company devoted to reprinting medieval texts. Soon to release a major work on the Mabinogi.
  • School of Celtic Studies: contains articles from Celtica.
  • The Early British Kingdoms Homepage: A good overview of Early and "Dark Ages" Britian. Also, see the Britannia site--I believe they're done by the same person.
  • Llanerch Press: A publishing company devoted to reissuing various Celtic books.
  • Medieval source material on the internet: huge collection of links to texts.
  • MS-OMIT: short for Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales. This is a great resource (certainly was for me) for finding both the original sources of most (if not all) Irish tales, as well as any translations in existence.
  • The ORB: The On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. One of the many good medievalist sites out there.
  • Scéla: Similar to MS-OMIT.
  • Vortigern Studies: great site devoted to "Dark Ages" Britain, and in particular to Vortigern.
  • A Welsh-English Lexicon: Very useful when you're online.

    Here's some similar sites you might enjoy:

  • Bedd Taliesin: on the grave of Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain.
  • The Castles of Wales: A nice overview of different castles in Wales and their histories.
  • The Celtic Art of Courtney Davis: Because he is working in the tradition, creating beautiful works of art.
  • The Celtic Tribes of Britain: On Britain in the age of Rome
  • The Corpus of Medieval English Texts
  • Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: texts in Latin.
  • The Donegal Fairy Tales: Jeremiah Curtain's classic of Irish fairy tales.
  • The Manx Notebook: A great collection of full texts on Manx folklore.
  • The Gode Cookery: A rather extensive look at medieval food and recipies, as well as a huge amount of medieval woodcuts. Definitely worth the look.
  • GC Medieval Woodcuts: The Gode Cookery's medieval woodcut collection
  • Gundestrup Cauldron: a site detailing the images of the famous cauldron.
  • In Parentheses: York University's wonderful collection of medieval texts, in .pdf format.
  • Ireland's History in Maps
  • Kernunnos: a site devoted to the Gaulish god Cernunnos.
  • The Megalith Portal: Charts just about every megalithic spot in the British Isles, with archaeological data, folklore, and how to find them.
  • OMALC: The Online Medieval and Classical Library.
  • The Robin Hood Project: From the same people who brought you the Camelot Project, this site contains the existing Robin Hood ballads from the 13th century onward.
  • Timeless Myths: A wonderful introduction to European mythology, covering Greco-Roman, Norse, Arthurian, and Celtic myth.
  • WorldWideWales: This site features a series of movies on Welsh history, culture, and travel. Definitely worth visiting.
  • V Wales: they have a nice selection of folklore texts, as well as other elements of Welsh life.

    Language Sites:

  • Reading Middle Welsh: A Course Book Based on the Welsh of the Mabinogi.
  • The Welsh-English Lexicon
  • Gaelic Dictionaries Online: covering Irish, Scottish, and Manx.
  • Gaeilge (Irish) Swearing: WARNING--NOT KID-FRIENDLY!
  • Celtic Dictionaries
  • Omniglot: a guide to the world's languages.

    Druid Sites:

  • Ar nDraoicht Fein: the largest American Druid organization.
  • OBOD: the largest British Druid organization
  • Red Oak Grove: New Jersey ADF Grove
  • Isaac Bonewits: founder of ADF and elder in the Druid movement.
  • Chronarchy: Michael Dangler's website on being a neodruid.
  • Ceisiwr Serith: website for neodruid and Proto-Indo-European amature expert.

    Celtic Christianity Sites:

  • The Celtic Orthodox Christian Church
  • The UW Celtic Christianity MA program
  • Celtic Orthodoxy

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