Dr Simon Rodway

Dr Rodway’s main research interests are: morphology of the verb in  Early Welsh and Middle Welsh (the subject of his PhD and a number of articles); using linguistic data to try and date early Welsh texts; 13^th century Welsh manuscripts (a CD-ROM produced by himself and Dr Graham Isaac); links between the Irish and Welsh languages in the Middle Ages and in particular how to recognise borrowing between them; the development of the Irish language up until the 12^th century; early Irish glossaries. He is also preparing Old Irish and Middle Irish modules for undergraduates which include editions of a number of short texts, some of which have not been edited previously.

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.