David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 (@davidstifter.bsky.social)

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:37 AM

I have finished a first written draft for publication of my Kathleen Hughes lecture (ASNC Cambridge, May 2025) about "Linguistic Contributions to a Model for the Celticisation of the Western Archipelago" and uploaded it at www.academia.edu/178731896/Li....
Please feel free to read and comment.

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:48 AM

The Lord of the Ring[-Worm]s

@lorraineelizab6.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:21 AMReposted by @davidstifter.bsky.social

Kuno Meyer (20 Dec 1858 Hamburg, Germany-11 Oct 1919 Leipzig). Scholar of Celtic philology/lit. Founded/edited 4 journals on Celtic Studies. Many texts/translations of Old & Middle Irish romances/sagas. Wrote on name origins & ancient law! Prof of the RIA. #medievalsky www.dib.ie/biography/me...

@graywyvern.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:40 PMReposted by @davidstifter.bsky.social

#etruscans

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 3:12 PM

Isn't there a way to declare such things ualienable national treasures?

@aonghusoha.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:46 AMReposted by @davidstifter.bsky.social

dair-community.social/@emilymbende...

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@csanaceltic.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:39 PMReposted by @davidstifter.bsky.social

Join us online for the Virtual Book Launch of Charlene M. Eska's "Listing the Law: The Legal Glossary of
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh"!

Thursday October 29, 1:00pm EDT (5:00PM BST)

Register here:

trentu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@dhaydenceltic.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 AMReposted by @davidstifter.bsky.social

The wonderful Prof. Barry Lewis @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie delivering the 22nd John V. Kelleher Lecture @harvard.edu this evening on medieval Welsh poets & poetry - an absolutely brilliant start to this year’s Celtic Colloquium! 😀

@aelura.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:55 PMReposted by @davidstifter.bsky.social

A good friend and good scholar is going to give this lecture tonight for those around Harvard.

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:44 PM

...on translation of the Greek poetess Sappho, in which Anne Carson's translations were mentioned quite centrally and did not necessarily come across as the best way of representing and responding to the work of that ancient author. /4

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:44 PM

...is an ocean of readable works out there from all over the world, spanning thousands of years. Translation and translanguaging is a complex wide-spread and widely under-appreciated work by thousands of people.
Funnily enough, only a few days ago I read @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social's chapter...
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@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:44 PM

...literature available, and accessible, to a modern audience. Just remember that pre-modern literature is not just a few splendid poets and authors from ancient Greece (often deliberately or unwittingly mis-represented by contemporary agents with a very personal agenda), but that there... /2

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:44 PM

Congratulations to Anne Carson for receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026. I am very happy to see a classical philologist and translator receive the prize, shedding a small light on the huge number of people working in making ancient and medieval...

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:24 PM

Conas a dhearnadh amhrán pobail. How a folk song was made.

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 6:10 AM

Interesting "Long Read", outside my usual areas of focus, in today's @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

As an Austrian, I want to add that Stefan Weber, the plagiarism hunter with an important side role in the affair, has been having a 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 questionable reputation for many years.

@aonghusoha.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:29 PMReposted by @davidstifter.bsky.social

Tá Liadain ar fáil le ceannach anois ó @leabharbreac.bsky.social

leabharbreac.com/shop/leabhai...

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:21 AM

Tá an SG níos "Gearmáiní" na an NG sa chaoi a grcuthaítear focail nua. Gnás níos "Béarlaí" atá ar an NG.

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 7:17 AM

Nó míorúiltlus? 😊

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:53 AM

Tá an t-ainm iontach "Wunderblume" air as Gearmáinis. Níor chuala mé riamh é.

@davidstifter.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:19 AM

Yesterday afternoon, the first meeting of my Ancient Celtic Working Group took place in @scs-dias.bsky.social. This was chiefly an introduction to what this group will be about (preparing a handbook of Ancient Celtic).
Over 50 people participated, online and in person.