Or was he real at all? It reminds me of the search for the “historical” Niall of the Nine Hostages...https://twitter.com/EarlyScotland/status/650601834965561344 …
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@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland recently Patrick Sims-Williams gave a great paper where (he cautiously) reaffirmed an early Gododdin -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland Oh, that's good to know--spent so much time on other stuff recently I missed that! Where was that? I do > -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland > wonder if worth comparing Gododdin+Beowulf, which has similarly seen controversy over dating (I'd favour > -
@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland it was the Bergin lecture in@ucddublin a few months back. Great talk looking at dating of Welsh material
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@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland >tho' this sometimes seems forgotten. Also find attempts to date vast amounts of W corpus into 12thC a > -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland > little difficult... If everything is 12thC, then what existed before? Just Juvencus & a few other bits?! :) -
@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland yeah it’s a problem. The opposite of Irish really, where even a few early forms are always seized eagerly
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