Dr Simon Rodway
BA, PhD (Cymru)

Senior Lecturer
Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies
Contact Details
- Email: syr@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 2.42, Parry - Williams Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622285
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Born in Edinburgh, he studied for a degree in Celtic Studies and a PhD in Middle Welsh in Aberystwyth. After a period at the National University of Ireland, Galway, he returned to Aberystwyth as a lecturer in 2003.
Additional Information
Editor of Journal of Celtic Linguistics.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- IR11820 - The Celts: A Contested Legacy
- IRM0220 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- GC11820 - Cymru a'r Celtiaid
- WE11420 - Introduction to Welsh Literature
- WEM0020 - The Mabinogion: Legendary and Arthurian Literature in Middle Welsh
- WEM0120 - Comparative Celtic Literature
- IRM0120 - Old Irish for Beginners
- IR12020 - Introduction to Old Irish
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- IR21820 - Old Irish (Language + Literature) 1+2
- IRM1120 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- GC21820 - Cyflwyniad i Hen Wyddeleg
Coordinator
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- WEM0020 - The Mabinogion: Legendary and Arthurian Literature in Middle Welsh
- WEM0120 - Comparative Celtic Literature
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- IR11820 - The Celts: A Contested Legacy
- WE11420 - Introduction to Welsh Literature
- GC11820 - Cymru a'r Celtiaid
- IRM0120 - Old Irish for Beginners
- IRM0220 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- IR12020 - Introduction to Old Irish
- IRM1120 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- IR21820 - Old Irish (Language + Literature) 1+2
- GC21820 - Cyflwyniad i Hen Wyddeleg
Lecturer
- WE11220 - Beginning Modern Welsh 1
- IR11720 - Introduction to the Literature of Gaelic Ireland
- IR11820 - The Celts: A Contested Legacy
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- WEM0460 - Dissertation: Welsh and Celtic Studies
- CY10920 - Trafod y Byd Cyfoes twy'r Gymraeg
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- WEM1120 - Welsh Language 1
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
- WE11420 - Introduction to Welsh Literature
- IRM0120 - Old Irish for Beginners
- IRM0220 - Medieval Saga Literature of Ireland
- CY30620 - Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi
- CY20620 - Pedair Cainc y Mabinogi
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
- WEM4220 - Women's Poetry in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1400 - 1800
Tutor
- WEM0520 - Early Medieval Welsh Poetry
- IR11720 - Introduction to the Literature of Gaelic Ireland
- CY11720 - Ysgrifennu Cymraeg Graenus
- CY10920 - Trafod y Byd Cyfoes twy'r Gymraeg
- WEM0220 - Welsh Language 2
- IRM0320 - Comparative Celtic Philology
Grader
Research
Middle Welsh, medieval Welsh manuscripts, Old and Middle Irish, Celtic philology.
Publications
Rodway, S & Lewis, B 2022, John Scottus Eriugena and Celtica eloquentia. in S Rodway, J Rowland & E Poppe (eds), Celts, Gaels, and Britons: Studies in Language and Literature from Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Honour of Patrick Sims-Williams: A Festschrift for Patrick Sims-Williams. Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 1-22.
Rodway, S 2022, 'The Other 300' History Today, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 100-101. <https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/other-300>
Rodway, S 2022, What Did Medieval Welsh Poets Do at Weddings? A Re-examination of the Cyfarws Neithior. in SE Roberts, S Rodway & A Falileyev (eds), Cyfarwydd mewn Cyfraith: Studies in Honour of Morfydd E. Owen. vol. 17, Cymdeithas Hanes Cyfraith Cymru, Bangor, pp. 124-41.
Rodway, S 2020, 'Awen yr Ymadawedig: Dau Gyfeiriad ym Marddoniaeth Wiliam Llyn', Dwned, vol. 25, pp. 79-89.
Rodway, S 2020, 'The Ogham Inscriptions of Scotland and Brittonic Pictish', Journal of Celtic Linguistics, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 173-234. 10.16922/jcl.21.6
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