Prof. Dr. George Broderick is responsible for Celtic Studies in the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. Phone: 00496217901103 Handy +4917666439232 Address: Universität Heidelberg Seminar für Klassische Philologie Keltologie Marstallhof 2-4 69117 Heidelberg
This article looks at the situation regarding Latin in Britain after the Roman withdrawal in the ... more This article looks at the situation regarding Latin in Britain after the Roman withdrawal in the early fifth century CE, whether it continued to be spoken, (and if so, for how long), or whether it quickly passed into history?
From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtai... more From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtain Manx Gaelic material from native speakers. In all he collected such material from eighty-eight informants from all parts of Man. His linguistic findings were published in his Outlines of the Phonology of Manx Gaelic (1893-94; separately 1895). This article concentrates on the profiles of his informants, thus providing a detailed background of them and their association with Manx Gaelic and assesses the state of Manx throughout the island during the time of Rhŷs visits there (1886-1893). The profiles here continue the same done for the succeeding native Manx speakers intervewed 1909-1972 (cf. Broderick 2018a), thus completing the profiling of all known native Manx speakers recorded 1886-1972.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, 2024
This article looks at the cylinder recordings made in 1933 of some six of the forty-seven native ... more This article looks at the cylinder recordings made in 1933 of some six of the forty-seven native Manx speakers Marstrander interviewed 1929, 1930, and the circumstances of a copy made for the Royal Irish Academy in 1935, but which escaped notice until very recently (2022) when the papers of Mark Braide (1910-1996), Official Manx Translator to the Isle of Man Government, were deposited in the Manx National Heritage Archives (MNHL MS 14996).
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, Tromsö, , 2024
This paper looks at the systematic collection of native Manx speech in the Isle of Man 1929, 190,... more This paper looks at the systematic collection of native Manx speech in the Isle of Man 1929, 190, 1933 undertaken by Prof. Dr. Carl J. S. Marstrander (1883-1965), Professor of Celtic Studies in the University of Oslo (1913-1954) which in 1941 attracted the interest of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für keltische Studien (1935-1945), including matters Manx Gaelic, particularly from its secretary Gerhard von Tevenar (1912-1943), who gave a lecture entitled "Die völkische Eigenart der Insel Man" ('the ethnic peculiarity of the Isle of Man') at a DGKS-cum-science ministry sponsored symposium directed against England held at Wernigerode, Sachsen Anhalt, September 1941.
Akten des 5. Duetschsprachigen Keltologensymposium, Zürich 7-10.09.2009, 2010
This article looks at the percentages of Celtic and Non-Celtic place-and polity-names as found in... more This article looks at the percentages of Celtic and Non-Celtic place-and polity-names as found in Ptolemyʼs Geographia (c.125-150 CE) and seeks to assess the proportion of Celticity or otherwise in Britain and Ireland during the early years of the first millennium CE.
Bausteine zum Studium der Keltologie (Birkhan), 2005
This article looks at different aspects of the Isle of Man: History, Manx Gaelic language and lit... more This article looks at different aspects of the Isle of Man: History, Manx Gaelic language and literature, Manx English, Manx traditional music and song, Constitutional and legal status of the Isle of Man, Tynwald (the Manx parliament), the Isle of Man, the UK and EU, the Isle of Man today.
This paper looks at the initial consonant replacement in Classical Manx as seen through the eyes ... more This paper looks at the initial consonant replacement in Classical Manx as seen through the eyes of Manx Gaelic scholar Robert L. Thomson (1924-2006).
This article looks at Prof. Francis J. Carmody's collections of Manx Gaelic from the last native ... more This article looks at Prof. Francis J. Carmody's collections of Manx Gaelic from the last native speakers during his visit to Man in 1949.
This article looks again at the names the names previously considered to be pre- and post Scandin... more This article looks again at the names the names previously considered to be pre- and post Scandinavian and records them according to a recent reassessment, thereby expanding the list of names in Man now felt to be pre-Scandinavian.
Lochlann. Festschrift for Jan Erik Rekdal, Professor of Celtic Studies in the University of Oslo., 2013
This articles seeks to portray the content of Indo-European and non-Indo-European facets to the l... more This articles seeks to portray the content of Indo-European and non-Indo-European facets to the languages and place-names associated with Britain and Ireland, as portrayed by the expertise of a number of scholars.
This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of No... more This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of Northern England.
This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of No... more This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of Northern England.
Until recently, solutions to the meaning of the names of the various major Hebridean islands have... more Until recently, solutions to the meaning of the names of the various major Hebridean islands have been looked for withing a Celtic framework, and this has in a number of cases led into a cul-de-sac, often resulting in a frustrating admission that the names might indeed be 'pre-Celtic'? In recent years, in the context of Phoenician mercantile activity around Britain and Ireland during the early first millennium BCE, a possible Proto-Semitic solution in a number of cases has been sought. Given this situation, the present article seeks to loosen the log-jam to some extent in offering a few suggestions. But for many names it is likely that we may never get to know their provenance or meaning at all?
This follows on from that made by Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Nicolaisen 1961-64. Iain Fraser of the School... more This follows on from that made by Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Nicolaisen 1961-64. Iain Fraser of the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, made additional recordings during 1981.
Die folgenden lateinischen Autoren stammen aus keltischen Gebieten, die im Laufe der Zeit ans Röm... more Die folgenden lateinischen Autoren stammen aus keltischen Gebieten, die im Laufe der Zeit ans Römische Reich angegliedert wurden, hauptsächlich Gallia Cisalpina, Gallia Narbonensis, Galli Transalpina, Hispania. Obwohl sich viele dieser Autoren als Römer fühlten, besitzen manche immerhin Familiennamen bzw. cognomina möglich keltischer Herkunft.
This is a presentation of Manx National Heritage MS 08307 dated to c.1830-40 containing the texts... more This is a presentation of Manx National Heritage MS 08307 dated to c.1830-40 containing the texts of some sixty-two Manx traditional songs current during that period and for a while before and thereafter.
From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtai... more From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtain Manx Gaelic material from native speakers. In all he collected such material from eighty-eight informants from all parts of Man. His linguistic findings were published in his Outlines of the Phonology of Manx Gaelic (1893-94; separately 1895). On the basis of the Manx of his informants this article assesses the state of Manx throughout the island during the time of Rhŷs's visits there and provides a background to the further development of Manx during the course of the twentieth century.
This article looks briefly at the significance of the triskele and swastika as sun-symbols in gen... more This article looks briefly at the significance of the triskele and swastika as sun-symbols in general and their long association with Insular Celtic traditions, and with the Isle of Man in particular, as well as the association of the triskele and other traditions with Manannán mac Lir (Manannan Beg mac y Leirr in Man) and with Tynwald, the Manx parliament, in Manx tradition over time.
During the early 1960s if not earlier there took place a revival in traditional music and song, p... more During the early 1960s if not earlier there took place a revival in traditional music and song, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, but also in England and Wales and in western Europe generally. The Isle of Man was no exception to this drive.
This paper reassesses the development of BM to MM in British in the light of archaeological consi... more This paper reassesses the development of BM to MM in British in the light of archaeological considerations.
This article looks at the situation regarding Latin in Britain after the Roman withdrawal in the ... more This article looks at the situation regarding Latin in Britain after the Roman withdrawal in the early fifth century CE, whether it continued to be spoken, (and if so, for how long), or whether it quickly passed into history?
From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtai... more From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtain Manx Gaelic material from native speakers. In all he collected such material from eighty-eight informants from all parts of Man. His linguistic findings were published in his Outlines of the Phonology of Manx Gaelic (1893-94; separately 1895). This article concentrates on the profiles of his informants, thus providing a detailed background of them and their association with Manx Gaelic and assesses the state of Manx throughout the island during the time of Rhŷs visits there (1886-1893). The profiles here continue the same done for the succeeding native Manx speakers intervewed 1909-1972 (cf. Broderick 2018a), thus completing the profiling of all known native Manx speakers recorded 1886-1972.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, 2024
This article looks at the cylinder recordings made in 1933 of some six of the forty-seven native ... more This article looks at the cylinder recordings made in 1933 of some six of the forty-seven native Manx speakers Marstrander interviewed 1929, 1930, and the circumstances of a copy made for the Royal Irish Academy in 1935, but which escaped notice until very recently (2022) when the papers of Mark Braide (1910-1996), Official Manx Translator to the Isle of Man Government, were deposited in the Manx National Heritage Archives (MNHL MS 14996).
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, Tromsö, , 2024
This paper looks at the systematic collection of native Manx speech in the Isle of Man 1929, 190,... more This paper looks at the systematic collection of native Manx speech in the Isle of Man 1929, 190, 1933 undertaken by Prof. Dr. Carl J. S. Marstrander (1883-1965), Professor of Celtic Studies in the University of Oslo (1913-1954) which in 1941 attracted the interest of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für keltische Studien (1935-1945), including matters Manx Gaelic, particularly from its secretary Gerhard von Tevenar (1912-1943), who gave a lecture entitled "Die völkische Eigenart der Insel Man" ('the ethnic peculiarity of the Isle of Man') at a DGKS-cum-science ministry sponsored symposium directed against England held at Wernigerode, Sachsen Anhalt, September 1941.
Akten des 5. Duetschsprachigen Keltologensymposium, Zürich 7-10.09.2009, 2010
This article looks at the percentages of Celtic and Non-Celtic place-and polity-names as found in... more This article looks at the percentages of Celtic and Non-Celtic place-and polity-names as found in Ptolemyʼs Geographia (c.125-150 CE) and seeks to assess the proportion of Celticity or otherwise in Britain and Ireland during the early years of the first millennium CE.
Bausteine zum Studium der Keltologie (Birkhan), 2005
This article looks at different aspects of the Isle of Man: History, Manx Gaelic language and lit... more This article looks at different aspects of the Isle of Man: History, Manx Gaelic language and literature, Manx English, Manx traditional music and song, Constitutional and legal status of the Isle of Man, Tynwald (the Manx parliament), the Isle of Man, the UK and EU, the Isle of Man today.
This paper looks at the initial consonant replacement in Classical Manx as seen through the eyes ... more This paper looks at the initial consonant replacement in Classical Manx as seen through the eyes of Manx Gaelic scholar Robert L. Thomson (1924-2006).
This article looks at Prof. Francis J. Carmody's collections of Manx Gaelic from the last native ... more This article looks at Prof. Francis J. Carmody's collections of Manx Gaelic from the last native speakers during his visit to Man in 1949.
This article looks again at the names the names previously considered to be pre- and post Scandin... more This article looks again at the names the names previously considered to be pre- and post Scandinavian and records them according to a recent reassessment, thereby expanding the list of names in Man now felt to be pre-Scandinavian.
Lochlann. Festschrift for Jan Erik Rekdal, Professor of Celtic Studies in the University of Oslo., 2013
This articles seeks to portray the content of Indo-European and non-Indo-European facets to the l... more This articles seeks to portray the content of Indo-European and non-Indo-European facets to the languages and place-names associated with Britain and Ireland, as portrayed by the expertise of a number of scholars.
This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of No... more This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of Northern England.
This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of No... more This article looks at the Celticity or otherwise of this mountain name in the Peak District of Northern England.
Until recently, solutions to the meaning of the names of the various major Hebridean islands have... more Until recently, solutions to the meaning of the names of the various major Hebridean islands have been looked for withing a Celtic framework, and this has in a number of cases led into a cul-de-sac, often resulting in a frustrating admission that the names might indeed be 'pre-Celtic'? In recent years, in the context of Phoenician mercantile activity around Britain and Ireland during the early first millennium BCE, a possible Proto-Semitic solution in a number of cases has been sought. Given this situation, the present article seeks to loosen the log-jam to some extent in offering a few suggestions. But for many names it is likely that we may never get to know their provenance or meaning at all?
This follows on from that made by Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Nicolaisen 1961-64. Iain Fraser of the School... more This follows on from that made by Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Nicolaisen 1961-64. Iain Fraser of the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, made additional recordings during 1981.
Die folgenden lateinischen Autoren stammen aus keltischen Gebieten, die im Laufe der Zeit ans Röm... more Die folgenden lateinischen Autoren stammen aus keltischen Gebieten, die im Laufe der Zeit ans Römische Reich angegliedert wurden, hauptsächlich Gallia Cisalpina, Gallia Narbonensis, Galli Transalpina, Hispania. Obwohl sich viele dieser Autoren als Römer fühlten, besitzen manche immerhin Familiennamen bzw. cognomina möglich keltischer Herkunft.
This is a presentation of Manx National Heritage MS 08307 dated to c.1830-40 containing the texts... more This is a presentation of Manx National Heritage MS 08307 dated to c.1830-40 containing the texts of some sixty-two Manx traditional songs current during that period and for a while before and thereafter.
From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtai... more From 1886 to 1893 Prof. John Rhŷs made all told seven visits to the Isle of Man in order to obtain Manx Gaelic material from native speakers. In all he collected such material from eighty-eight informants from all parts of Man. His linguistic findings were published in his Outlines of the Phonology of Manx Gaelic (1893-94; separately 1895). On the basis of the Manx of his informants this article assesses the state of Manx throughout the island during the time of Rhŷs's visits there and provides a background to the further development of Manx during the course of the twentieth century.
This article looks briefly at the significance of the triskele and swastika as sun-symbols in gen... more This article looks briefly at the significance of the triskele and swastika as sun-symbols in general and their long association with Insular Celtic traditions, and with the Isle of Man in particular, as well as the association of the triskele and other traditions with Manannán mac Lir (Manannan Beg mac y Leirr in Man) and with Tynwald, the Manx parliament, in Manx tradition over time.
During the early 1960s if not earlier there took place a revival in traditional music and song, p... more During the early 1960s if not earlier there took place a revival in traditional music and song, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, but also in England and Wales and in western Europe generally. The Isle of Man was no exception to this drive.
This paper reassesses the development of BM to MM in British in the light of archaeological consi... more This paper reassesses the development of BM to MM in British in the light of archaeological considerations.
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