(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” →
An article in the Autumn 2017 issue of this Newsletter outlined the Leverhulme-funded REELS project (‘Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland: evidence from place-names’), and explained that one of the main outputs would be an online … Continue reading “AN ONLINE RESOURCE FOR BERWICKSHIRE PLACE-NAMES (Carole Hough)” →
Scottish Place-Name SocietyComann Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba DAY CONFERENCE AND AGM Saturday, 11th May 2018V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PRINTABLE BOOKING FORM (SEE ABSTRACTS BELOW) 1015 – 1045 Registration 1045 – 1130 … Continue reading “DAY CONFERENCE & AGM, 11 MAY 2019, DUNDEE” →
Scottish Place-Name SocietyComann Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba Day conference – Saturday 2 November 2019 Three Villages Community Hall, Arrochar, G83 7AB CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PRINTABLE BOOKING FORM (SEE ABSTRACTS BELOW) 1000–1055 Registration and coffee/tea 1055–1100 Welcome1100–1150 Sue Furness, Fiona … Continue reading “DAY CONFERENCE, 2 NOVEMBER 2019, ARROCHAR” →
