• Nicholas Jonathan Anselm Williams (born October 1942 in Walthamstow, Essex), sometimes credited as N. J. A. Williams, is a leading expert and poet in the...
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  • n. 130  His twin brother Nicholas Sims-Williams is a scholar of Central Asia. Following the early retirement of the Celticist Rachel Bromwich from Cambridge's...
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    Celtic studies (redirect from Celticist)
    movement.[citation needed] Perhaps the most important German-speaking Celticist was Swiss scholar Rudolf Thurneysen (1857–1940). A student of Windisch...
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  • intended for the general Welsh-speaking reader rather than the professional Celticist, and Parry's editorial practice reflects that fact. It has no apparatus...
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    regularly become Art(h)ur when borrowed into Welsh. According to linguist and Celticist Stephan Zimmer, it is possible that Artorius has a Celtic origin, being...
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    phonemes, all three make use of many digraphs and trigraphs. In 1932, Celticist T. F. O'Rahilly expressed the opinion that Manx orthography is inadequate...
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    uncle, also named Charles de Gaulle, who was a historian and passionate Celticist who advocated the union of the Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Bretons into one...
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    manuscript, or a copy of it, became one of the sources of the Book of Aneirin. Celticist Thomas Charles-Edwards suggests that the initial addition of "Dinogad's...
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    Riotamus, this figure being the original Arthur, although historians and Celticists have been reluctant to follow Ashe in his conclusions. Whatever his sources...
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    Simon and Gwilym Williams). Celticists associated with the college include Sir John Morris-Jones, Sir Thomas (T. H.) Parry-Williams and William John Gruffydd...
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    Welsh poetry in strict meter by St. Richard Gwyn, were identified by Celticist John Hobson Matthews of the Catholic Record Society in one of the Llanover...
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  • traditions and practices." The historian Charles Thomas, in addition to the Celticist Heinrich Zimmer, writes that the distinction between sub-Roman and post-Roman...
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    a woman with supernatural powers plays a leading part". In addition, Celticist Tom Peete Cross concluded that the swan maiden "figured in Celtic literature...
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    Jersiaises, was published in 1865. The so-called "Cranken Rhyme" collected by Celticist John Hobson Matthews from John Davey of Boswednack, one of the last local...
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