WORKSHOP ON ONOMASTICS A workshop on Onomastics will take place on Friday, 17th January 2020 at University of Glasgow, Main Building Room 461 (Senate Room). The workshop will lead to a special issue of the Journal for Scottish Name Studies. The … Continue reading “WORKSHOP ON ONOMASTICS” →
(Image copyright: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig) Scottish Place-Name Society Comann Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba DAY CONFERENCE AND AGM Saturday 2 May 2020 Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye, IV44 8RQ In light of the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the difficult decision has … Continue reading “DAY CONFERENCE & AGM, 2 MAY 2020, ISLE OF SKYE” →
(Image Copyright: University of York) The 2019 Autumn Day Conference of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland will take place at King’s Manor, University of York, from 10am to 4.30pm on Saturday 19 October 2019. The theme … Continue reading “VIKINGS AND NAMES CONFERENCE, YORK, SATURDAY 19 OCTOBER 2019” →
(from Newsletter23, Autumn 2007) This is an extract from a paper entitled ‘Marches and Coldrain: exploring the place-names of boundaries and assembly sites in east central Scotland’, which Simon Taylor gave at the Mary Higham Memorial Day Conference held at … Continue reading “The Trouble with OUTH: Defining a boundary in medieval Fife – Simon Taylor” →
The Cateran Trail is a long-distance foot-path which begins in Blairgowrie and then takes in Strathardle before heading over the hills to Spittal of Glenshee and then on to Alyth via Kirkton of Glenisla. I was asked by Cateran Commonwealth, … Continue reading “THE CATERAN TRAIL: A WALK AMONG THE PLACE-NAMES AND FIANNSCAPE OF EASTERN PERTHSHIRE AND STRATHARDLE (PETER MCNIVEN)” →
The Llyfr Aneirin (henceforth LA), now housed in the National Library of Wales (Cardiff MS 2.81), is one of the most celebrated but controversial collections of early Welsh poetry. LA contains the famous elegies collectively referred to as Y Gododdin, four interpolations and four gorchanau. Y Gododdin is the … Continue reading “THE LLYFR ANEIRIN AND THE PLACE-NAMES OF Y GODODDIN (Kelly A. Kilpatrick)” →
Black Cleft of the Shouting. The site of a spectacular rock avalanche on Beinn Alligin, Torridon, estimated to have occurred four thousand years ago. It was believed by some to be haunted, probably due to the magnificent echo. The massive … Continue reading “Eag Dhubh na h-Èigheachd” →
