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ASNC Alumni Newsletter Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Alumni Newsletter Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Issue 10 September 2019 Who is this veteran warrior? Find out about the activities to commemorate his retirement inside. A Message from the Head of Department 2 Hwæt! once again, and welcome to this year’s Alumni Newsletter. As ever, there’s been plenty going on this year in the Department, and for ASNCs everywhere. This academic year, we are thrilled to be saying hello to not one but two new lecturers to the Department. As of 1 September, Erik Niblaeus has joined us (from Durham) to become our brand new lecturer in manuscript studies, and Rory Naismith (from King’s College London) to look after the History of England before the Norman Conquest. The very warmest of welcomes to them both. Elsewhere in this issue we bid a very fond fare- well to Simon Keynes, who is retiring after twenty years as the Elrington and Bosworth Professor, and forty-one years altogether as a lecturer in the Department. We are delighted that Simon is succeeded in the Chair by our very own Rosalind Love, who will occupy it with the very greatest distinction. The ASNC named lectures this year were very much brought to you by the letter ‘J’ — as leading scholars Jayne Carroll (Nottingham), Judith Jesch (Nottingham) and Jacopo Bisagni (NUI, Galway) gave the Quiggin, Chadwick and Hughes lectures respectively. We thank them for deliver- ing such memorable and brilliant accounts of ‘watery place-names and the medieval English landscape’, ‘the poetry of Orkneyinga saga’ and ‘the Irish tradition of the divisions of time in the early Middle Ages’. Congratu- lations also to MPhil student Ellis Wylie, who won the annual Clemoes Reading Prize back in May with an amazing performance of Lokrur, in Old Norse. The Department’s research project ‘Brittany and the Atlantic Archipela- go: Contact, Myth and History, 450–1200’ recently reached a successful conclusion, and the first phase of ‘The Gersum Project: The Scandinavian Influence on English Vocabulary’ will also come to an end in October. Our other major projects continue their work, including ‘Text and Mean- ing: Contributions to a Revised Dictionary of Medieval Irish’ and ‘Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae: The Latin Lives of the Welsh Saints’, and they will be succeeded (from January 2020) by a brand new project — the very ex- citingly named ‘Latin Arthurian Literature and the Rise of Fiction’! We were sad to bid farewell recently to ‘Text and Meaning’ Research Associate Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, who leaves us to return to a post- doctoral position in Dublin. Also off to pastures new with our warmest congratulations are recent PhD students/post-docs Ben Allport (to a Visit- ing Fellowship at the University of Bergen), David Callander (to a Lectur- ership in the School of Welsh at the University of Cardiff), Jonathan Hui (to a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Hong Kong), Emma Knowles (to an Associate Lectureship in English at the Uni- versity of Sydney), Hattie Soper (to the Simon and June Li Fellowship in 3 A Message from the Head of Department English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford), and Rebecca Thomas (to a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bangor University). Heartiest felicitations also to Becky Shercliff, who is about to start a Junior Re- search Fellowship at St John’s, and who has been awarded the Johann Kaspar Zeuss prize for the best PhD in Celtic Studies completed this year. Becky and Ben have also been doing massively important outreach work for the Department, creating some brand new resources for schools teaching ASNC-related subjects, including a magnificent new website about the Vikings. You can read the latest news about all our projects, and other research, symposia and workshops happening in the Department, elsewhere in this issue, including about new books from David Callander, Richard Dance, Rosalind Love, Rory Naismith, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Elizabeth Rowe. As always, it’s been fabulous to see so many of you in person — includ- ing at the alumni reunion drinks last September, at the Black Tie Dinner in Newnham in January, and at the Garden Party in June. It was also great to catch up with a number of alumni at events connected with the British Library’s wonderful ‘Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms’ exhibition earlier in the year. Courtesy of Simon Keynes, some very fetching pieces of cardboard were ‘rescued’ from the exhibition and have since been spotted around the ASNC corridor. We are now proud owners of a blow-up of the Tiberi- us world map (now adorning the second-floor stairwell at 9 West Road), and a life-size cut-out of King Edgar! Other news in this issue includes a number of births and weddings, and we send our warmest congratula- tions to everyone who is celebrat- ing. Enormous thanks as always to Brittany for editing this newsletter, and greetings to ASNCs every- where. Please keep on staying in touch and let us know what you’ve been doing: you can reach us any time through the Alumni Facebook group, or through email, or by more old-fashioned means (though no more rune stones, please, they don’t fit in my pigeon hole …). Richard Dance Head of Department 4 New Staff New Staff cese of Hamburg-Bremen, and its chronicler Master Adam, as well as an Dr Erik Niblaeus analysis of German influence on liturgy Lecturer in Manuscript Studies in medieval Scandinavia and the im- portation of German liturgical books in Erik Niblaeus, native of Stockholm, the final stages of the Christianisation joins the department as lecturer in process. manuscript studies from Durham, where he has lectured in medieval his- tory since 2014. Before that he did postdoctoral research in Cambridge (at CRASSH) and at the Friedrich- Alexander-Universität in Erlangen. He did his PhD at King's College London, and his undergraduate degree and MPhil in ASNC. Erik's research interests include liturgical manu- scripts, parish churches and parish formation, Latin history- writing in medie- val Germany and Scandinavia, conversion and Christianisation, and church re- form. His first book, on German influence in Scandinavia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. It in- cludes a re- evaluation of the missionary pro- ject based in the double archdio- New Staff 5 Dr Rory Naismith search Associate. In 2015 he left Cam- Lecturer in England before the Norman bridge to take up a position as lecturer Conquest in early medieval British history at King's College London, from which he Rory read ASNC in the early 2000s at is returning to take up Simon Keynes's Trinity (during which time he met his old position as lecturer in England be- wife, Brittany Schorn, also then an fore the Norman Conquest. ASNC student), and stayed around in As befits his ASNC heritage, Rory the Department for a long time: as an has wide-ranging interests in early me- MPhil and PhD student, then from dieval history. He has written about 2009 as a Junior Research Fellow at Latin and Old English texts, charters, Clare, a Leverhulme Early Career Re- chronicles and particularly coins. An search Fellow and finally a Mellon Re- ongoing interest, which will be the sub- ject of his next mono- graph, is the impact that coined money had on the real life of people in the early Middle Ages. Was it a problem that only relatively few silver pennies, quite high in value, were available? Rory is seeking to turn that question around, and consider who gained and why from making or using coins. He is extremely pleased to be returning to his academic home, and looks forward to meeting and working with a new crop of ASNC students. 6 New Staff Dr Becky Shercliff Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College Becky studied ASNC at undergraduate, MPhil and PhD level, at St John’s Col- lege. Her research interests centre on medieval texts and their development in the context of their social, historical and literary background, with a particular fo- cus on producing new editions and translations of previously neglected works. She has published research on both medieval Irish literature and Welsh Arthurian literature. For her PhD thesis, she edited and translated a medieval Irish saga text entitled Tochmarc Ferbe (‘The Wooing of Ferb’), while also analysing the significant role played by the tale’s female characters. During her research fellow- ship, she will be exploring the ways in which medieval texts which are attested in multiple versions can illuminate how medieval authors went about composing or reworking their texts, and what motivations prompted these activities. Becky has also been involved in developing the website eSenchas (www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/ esenchas/), an electronic resource for the study of medieval Irish texts, and vari- ous resource packages for schools, which are available to download from the Department website. Departmental News and Events 7 Marking the Retirement of Prof. Simon Keynes Dr Rosalind Love At the stroke of midnight on the 30th of September, a certain much-loved member of ASNC will shake off the shackles of office and the burdens of administration, springing gazelle-like into the freedom of retirement – no more 9am Departmental meetings, no more Tripos exams to set, no more inspections or Faculty Board meet- ings. Professor Simon Keynes will have served for twenty years as El- rington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and even longer (since 1978) as lecturer in the Department. Of course, since he himself read the ASNC Tripos, his connection with the Department goes back even further, so that Simon is, one might say, like a stick of rock with ASNC written all through.
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