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Dr Angharad Elias

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Hogan o Nefyn. Diddordeb mewn llawysgrifau a Chyfraith Hywel 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Interested in manuscripts and medieval Welsh Law.

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Nov 11

Medieval Welsh divorce: 'Should her husband be leprous, or have fetid breath, or be incapable of marital duties; if on account of one of these three things she leave her husband, she is to have the whole of her property' from Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#CyfraithHywel #MedievalWelshLaw

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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 1d

This is, make no mistake, a very big deal (and about time too!).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · 2d

📢Online Seminar Ar lein
🗓16/10/2025 🕔5.00pm
🗣 Elisabeth Chatel (CRBC)
'The Joseph Loth Dilemma: Scientific Authority and Cultural Identity in Brittany'
💻Dilynwch y ddolen i gofrestru ar gyfer Zoom / Follow the link to register for Zoom: forms.office.com/e/eD0gLjVZtY

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 17d

Is a dragon plaguing your land? A fix from medieval Wales:

1. Dig a hole, fill it w/mead, & cover w/a sheet.

2. Wait for the dragon to tire itself out & turn into a pig.

3. Let the pig fall in the hole, get wrapped in the sheet & drink all the mead.

4. Capture the drunk pig in a chest & bury it.

Oxford, Jesus College MS 111, fol. 130r. A drawing of a two-legged dragon in red, marking a run-on at the bottom of a page. His long tail is curled behind him and in front of him is the run-on and a red rectangle with some cross hatching. Three lines of text in Middle Welsh are visible above the dragon.

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · 18d

Ar ôl corwynt o wythnos bu cynhadledd ‘Gorwelion’ @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social
yn llwyddiant. Diolch i bawb fu’n ein helpu dros y tridiau 🌟 a diolch am yr holl gacennau i gadw ni fynd 🎂

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Y Geiriadur @geiriadur.bsky.social · 21d

Gair y dydd: deugain ‘pedwar deg’ www.geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html..., wrth i’r gynhadledd ‘Gorwelion’ agor i ddathlu deugain mlwyddiant sefydlu Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru.

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Aug 24

Carreg Ogham a Lladin o’r 6g, Eglwys St Illtud, Ynys Bŷr.
6thC Caldey Island Stone ✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Aug 3

Ynys Enlli

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Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology @henebtwa.bsky.social · Jul 24

*English below

ARCHEOLEGWYR YN DARGANFOD CEI CANOLOESOL – Y CYNTAF I GAEL EI DDARGANFOD YNG NGHYMRU

Dysgwch fwy yma:
heneb.org.uk/cy/archeoleg...

MEDIEVAL QUAY DISCOVERED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS IS THE FIRST TO BE FOUND IN WALES!

Read more about Heneb's discovery here: heneb.org.uk/medieval-qua...

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Jul 13

No, I wasn’t x

Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Jul 13

This was yesterday and packed with people. It was too busy to be honest.

Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Jul 13

Côr y Cewri

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Jul 9

These articles may be of interest to you: Smith; J. B.; ‘Ynad Llys; Brawdwr Llys; Iudex Curie’; in The Welsh King and his Court (Cardiff; 2000); Jenkins; D.; ‘A Family of Medieval Welsh Lawyers’; in Celtic Law Papers (Brussels; 1973); 121–33.

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Jul 8

Looking forward to taking part in this session at 2.15 today @imc-leeds.bsky.social on legal authorities in Medieval Wales. Dewch draw i wrando 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Jun 24

Medieval Merlin Manuscript Fragment Revealed Through Digital Unfolding www.medievalists.net/2025/04/medi... #MedievalManuscripts

Medieval Merlin Manuscript Fragment Revealed Through Digital Unfolding - Medievalists.net

A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment of Merlin and King Arthur has been rediscovered in a 16th-century book binding at Cambridge University Library and digitally revealed using advanced imaging…

www.medievalists.net

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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · Jun 16

Darlith Cymdeithas Hynafiaethwyr Cymru yn yr Eisteddfod (gan Ann Parry Owen) 16.30 Mercher 6ed Awst, 2025 yn Wrecsam – ymunwch â ni am ddarlith ddifyr ar y rhestrau geiriau rhyfeddol a luniodd y copïwr llawysgrifau John Jones, Gellilifdy, Sir y Fflint.

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Jun 15

Gwefr prynu Beibl 'sydd mor brin â dannedd iâr' www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert...

Gwefr prynu Beibl 'sydd mor brin â dannedd iâr'

Mae Gerald Morgan o Aberystwyth newydd gael gafael ar Feibl Cymraeg Oliver Cromwell 1654 - Beibl

www.bbc.com

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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · Jun 12

Diolch i’r Athro Ann Parry Owen am ddarlith O’Donnell arbennig iawn wythnos ddiwethaf. Gallwch wylio recordiad ar ein sianel YouTube @collen105.bsky.social @geiriadur.bsky.social
youtu.be/cN8j9KZS-Dc

Geiriadur i gadw’r iaith yn dragywydd: Thomas Wiliems a geiriadur hanesyddol cyntaf y Gymraeg

YouTube video by Y Ganolfan Geltaidd / CAWCS

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · May 29

Nefyn am byth 😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · May 29

🗣Bydd ardaloedd sydd â nifer uchel o siaradwyr Cymraeg yn cael cymorth ychwanegol i gryfhau'r iaith yn eu cymunedau, ar ôl i Weinidogion Llywodraeth Cymru dderbyn argymhellion adroddiad y Comisiwn Cymunedau Cymraeg.

Dyma farn trigolion Nefyn am y datblygiad.

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Chicago Tafia Welsh Society @chicagotafia.bsky.social · May 13

Elephants in Aberystwyth - 1911. They were a part of a visit from Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie. The elephants, named "Salt" and "Pepper", were photographed taking a dip in the sea.

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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · May 7

📢Darlith O’Donnell 2025 O’Donnell Lecture
🗓05/06/25 🕔5.00pm
📍@LLGCymru & Zoom
🗣Ann Parry Owen
‘Geiriadur i gadw'r iaith yn dragywydd: Thomas Wiliems (1545/6͏–c.1622) a geiriadur hanesyddol cyntaf y Gymraeg’
🎧Welsh language lecture with translation.
@collen105.bsky.social @geiriadur.bsky.social

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · May 1

Whoever shall sue the chief huntsman, let him seek, on the legal day, to overtake him in his bed, before putting on one boot; for he is under no obligation to answer, unless he be so found: and that legal day is May Day.
Peniarth 37 f.12r-v #MedievalWelshLaw #MayDay
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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · May 1

Y neb a holo y penkynydd keisset y dyd kyfreith y ordiwes ar y wely kyn gwisgaw un cuaran idaw; canyt atteb onyt y uelly y keffir: sef dyd yw hwnnw dyw Kalan Mei.
Peniarth 37 f.12r-v
#CyfraithHywel #CalanMai
Llun: @LLGCymru Peniarth 28
Cyfieithiad isod 1/2

Image of the king’s chief huntsman on the bottom left of a page in Peniarth manuscript 28.

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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · Apr 29

📢Seminar Hybrid Seminar
🗓22/05/25 🕔5.00pm
🗣 Petra Johana Poncarová (Glasgow)
‘Twentieth-Century Radical Scottish Gaelic Magazines and Contacts with Wales’
📧E-bostiwch [email protected] i gofrestru
📧Email [email protected] to register

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Apr 26

Diolch i bawb ddaeth i Seminar Cyfraith Hywel yn Y Ganolfan Geltaidd heddiw. Yn enwedig i’r siaradwyr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Sara Elin Roberts a Paul Russell fu’n siarad am luniau yn y llawysgrifau, ffugiadau Iolo Morganwg, a’r termau am sarhad, cywilydd a gwarth yn y testunau cyfraith 🌟

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Dr Angharad Elias @angharadelias.bsky.social · Apr 23

Penbleth mynwent o'r Oesoedd Canol yn ne Cymru'n parhau www.bbc.com/cymrufyw/ert...

Penbleth mynwent o'r Oesoedd Canol yn ne Cymru'n parhau

Menywod yw bron pob un o'r sgerbydau ar y safle hyd yma, ac mae eitemau prin hefyd yn awgrymu nad cymuned arferol oedd hi.