Meeting Medieval Welsh: An interview with Professor Paul Russell

Professor Paul Russell talks about what is covered by the medieval Welsh language and literature part of the ASNC course, describing the kinds of text that are studied, and how far medieval Welsh differs from modern Welsh. He introduces a manuscript containing texts about Welsh law written near Llandeilo in Wales and now held in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (viewable in the freely-accessible Wren Digital Library www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wr... as O.7.1
mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/viewpa... ). This ordinary-looking book turns out to have some surprising creatures hidden among its pages.
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