Simon Rodway

Lecturer
BA, PhD (Wales) Photograph of Simon Rodway.

Contact

Email: syr@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622137

Biography

Middle Welsh, medieval manuscripts, Celtic philology.

Staff Publications

"Gaulish" Megaliths in Ireland Gall in Sanas Cormaic, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies,  55 (Summer 2008) 41-50pp.

Review of Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain ed.Rachel Bromwich, third edition (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2006) in Llen Cymru 31 (2008), 197-98pp.

'The Where, Who, When and Why of Medieval Welsh Prose Texts: Some Methodological Considerations', Studia Celtica 41 (December 2007), 45-87pp.

Rhyddiaith Gymraeg o lawysgrifau'r 13eg ganrif, CD-ROM, ed. with Graham R. Isaac, (Aberystwyth, Bangor, Swansea and Cardiff, 2003).

'Two developments in medieval literary Welsh and their implications for dating texts', in Paul Russell (ed.), Yr hen iaith: studies in early Welsh, (Aberystwyth, 2003), 67-74pp.

Mynegai i Fwletin y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd/Index to the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, (Caerdydd, 2003), 190 pp.

'Absolute forms in the poetry of the Gogynfeirdd: functionally obsolete archaisms or working system?', Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 7 (1998), 63-84pp.

Four New Old Irish Courses’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 56 (Winter 2008), 101-4pp.

‘Two Notes on Sanas Cormaic’, Studi Celtici, 5 (2008-9), 177-89pp.

‘A Welsh Equivalent to the Irish Fían?’, Studi Celtici, 5 (2008-9), 191-96pp.

‘Cymraeg vs. Kymraeg: Dylanwad Ffrangeg ar Orgraff Cymraeg Canol?’, Studia Celtica, 43 (2009), 122-33pp.

‘What Language Did St Patrick Swear In?’, Ériu, 59 (2009), 139-51pp.

‘Pastard, Pastardaeth’, Llên Cymru, 32 (2009), 193-94pp.

‘Mermaids, Leprechauns and Fomorians: A Middle Irish Account of the Descendants of Cain’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 59 (Summer 2010), 1-17pp.

‘Celtic – Definitions, Problems and Controversies’ yn In Search of Celtic Tylis in Thrace (III C BC): Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Colloquium Arranged by the National Archaeological Institute and Museum at Sofia and the Welsh Department, Aberystwyth University Held at the National Archaeological Institute and Museum Sofia, 8 May 2010, gol. Lyudmil F. Vagalinski (Sofia, National Archaeological Institute and Museum, 2010),  9-32pp.

 Forthcoming

‘Two Notes on Weapons in Culhwch ac Olwen’, Studi Celtici