Welsh Journals

Aberffraw and discuss early medieval occupation of the site, in Trans. Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club, 1995, 13-21. J. Rowland provides some stimulating arguments regarding the story behind Y Gododdin and asserts the accuracy of the battle tactics described therein, in Cambrian Med. Celtic Studies, 30, 13-40. P. F.Wilkinson describes excavations at Hen Gastell, Briton Ferry, which reveal evidence of high status occupation from the sixth to the tenth century, with subsequent reoccupation in the later twelfth century, in Medieval Archaeology, 39, 1-50. A. Schlesinger, C. Walls, et al. excavate an early medieval church and medieval farmstead at Llanelen, Llanrhidian, revealing an extended period of use for the site, in Gower, 46, 58-79. S. Clarke publishes the readings taken from the eleven coins of Aethelred II found at Monmouth in 1991, in The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 11, 55-6. Proinsias Mac Cana outlines some points to consider with regard to the latest English edition of Culhwch ac Olwen, in Cambrian Med. Celtic Studies, 29,53-7. A. Shisha-Halevy studies Middle Welsh syntax, in Studia Celtica, 29, 127-223. U. B. Smith looks at the Welsh language in the middle ages, in Lien Cymru, 18, nos. 3 and 4, 221-57 (in Welsh). S. Duffy asserts that complex relations and close political links existed between Ostmen, the Irish and the Welsh in the eleventh century, and supports the value of Historia Gruffud vab Kenan as a primary source, in Peritia, 9, 378-96. D. Rees surveys the forest of Glyncothi through the middle ages and beyond, in The Carms. Antiquary, 31, 45-55. H. Pryce considers the church and the law in Wales in the middle ages, in CofCenedl, 10, 1-30 (in Welsh). R. R. Davies continues his four-part presidential address on 'The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400', in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., 6th series, 5, 1-20. This instalment examines names, boundaries and regnal solidarities, and how each of these can be used in a consideration of the distinct peoples of the British Isles. P. Harrison sheds light on the important military role played by the tower churches of Gower, in Gower, 46, 15-23. Through the work of Master John of St David's, A. Breeze considers the state of knowledge and learning at the cathedral in the latter half of the twelfth century, in Studia Celtica, 29, 225-35. P. M. Remfry provides an important new consideration of the career of Cadwallon ap Madog, proclaiming his impressive power with implications