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- 2657-3008
- Pubblicato per la prima volta
- 15 Dec 2016
- Periodo di pubblicazione
- 1 volta all'anno
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- Inglese
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- Accesso libero
The Early Welsh Cult of Arthur: Some Points at Issue
Pagine: 5 - 13
Astratto
A recent discussion of Arthur and Wales prompts a reply, using up-to-date research. It offers these surprising conclusions. Arthur really existed: he is not a myth or a legend, but historical. He will not have been Welsh, but a North Briton, and perhaps a Strathclyder. His battles, fought against other Britons and not the English, can all be located in southern Scotland and the Borders. Camlan, where Arthur fell, can be securely dated to 537 (after the Welsh annals) and situated north of Carlisle on Hadrian’s Wall (as proposed in 1935 by O. S. G. Crawford). The battle of Mount Badon in 493 will, however, have nothing to do with Arthur or North Britain. It was a British victory over the English, fought near Swindon and perhaps at the hillfort of Ringsbury overlooking Braydon Forest. Proponents of a Northern Arthur, like Rachel Bromwich (1915-2010) and Charles Thomas (1928-2016) can thus be vindicated against those rejecting a Northern Arthur, like Professor Kenneth Jackson (1909-91) of Edinburgh.
Parole chiave
- Arthur
- North Britain
- Camlan
- Mount Badon
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Accesso libero
Stories from Poland by a Welsh Soldier–John Elwyn Jones’s Translations
Pagine: 15 - 38
Astratto
The majority of translations from Polish into Welsh published so far are the works of John Elwyn Jones (1921-2008), who learned Polish in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. His translations include
Parole chiave
- Polish-Welsh translation
- John Elwyn Jones
- Bolesław Prus
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- translation criticism
- Accesso libero
Successful Learners of Irish as an L2: Motivation, Identity and Linguistic Mudes
Pagine: 39 - 56
Astratto
This article presents the results of a small-scale research conducted for a master’s thesis on the motivation to learn Irish on the part of university students and members of the Gaelic society
Parole chiave
- Irish
- motivation
- identity
- linguistic
- minority languages
- Accesso libero
Motivational Factors in the Acquisition of Welsh in Poland
Pagine: 57 - 73
Astratto
For some years now, Welsh has been taught as a foreign language outside Wales, most especially in other Celtic countries, central Europe – and Poland. The first courses were established in the Catholic University of Lublin in the 1980s, and this provision has expanded over the years to include a Celtic language specialisation within the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Relying at first on teachers from Wales to provide instruction in Welsh, the Centre for Celtic Studies is increasingly producing new, competent speakers/users of Welsh among the Poles. An obvious question to be asked concerns motivational issues – why, on the eastern edges of the European Union, are there people willing to put the effort into learning a language from the far west of Europe, when they have, in some cases, little contact with regular users of Welsh? Through the use of focus group interviews, the present study attempts to discover what motivates Polish students to study Welsh in a context of limited direct contact with the speakers of the language and limited, indirect access to Welsh language and culture.
Parole chiave
- motivation
- new speakers
- language learning
- Welsh
- Poland
- Celtic Studies
- Accesso libero
Efnisien’s Trickster Wiles: Meanings, Motives, and Mental Illness in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi
Pagine: 73 - 89
Astratto
This article examines the character of Efnisien in the Second Branch of the medieval Welsh collection of stories known as the
Parole chiave
- Mabinogi
- Efnisien
- medieval
- Branwen
- Second Branch
- trickster
- Žižek
- Accesso libero
Polish Migration’s Socio-Cultural Impact on Wales in the Aftermath of 2004 – Preliminary Findings from Western Wales: An Aberystwyth Case Study
Pagine: 91 - 112
Astratto
This papers looks at the societal and cultural impact of the post-2004 Polish migration to Wales. The history of Polish migration to the UK is introduced together with the relevant statistics and their rationale behind choosing cosmopolitan Wales as their new country of residence. Even though the focus of the paper is rather on the UK as a whole, it is Wales that is central to the investigation. Wales was particularly neglected in the study of migration in the aftermath of the 2004 European Union (EU) enlargement and surprisingly little attention was given to it. Focusing on Polish diaspora is important as it is the most numerous external migration wave to Wales (ONS 2011). The case study of Aberystwyth is introduced as a good example of a semi-urban area to which Poles migrated after 2004. Moreover, the paper elaborates on the characteristics of the Polish newcomers by analysing their distinctive features, migration patterns as well as adaptation processes. Mutual relations between post-1945 and post-2004 immigration waves are investigated, together with Poles’ own image and perception. This paper gives a deeper understanding and provides an insight into the nature of the Polish migrants’ impact on the cultural and societal life of Wales.
Parole chiave
- Wales
- Poland
- migration
- 2004
- socio-cultural