Online lecture on Irish folklore (Léacht Almqvist 2023):
The 2023 Bo Almqvist Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Almqvist of The Folklore of Ireland Society on Friday 24 November at 7:30 pm GMT (=2:30 pm EST) on Zoom. The lecture's title is 'A Scholar and a Storyteller: Bo Almqvist and Mícheál Ó Gaoithín', and the speaker will be introduced by Barbara Hillers of Indiana University.
🇮🇪 "The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles."
#FairyTaleTuesday: #Milucra bewitched a lake near the summit of #SlieveGullion and tricked #Fionn Mac Cumhaill into swimming in it. He emerged silver-haired, aged and bent. The #Fianna, captured the #fairy and forced her to give their leader a restorative potion from her golden Cornucopia, but in doing so she made sure his hair remained silver. Some texts say it was the #Irish hero Cuilenn who came to Fionn’s rescue by offering him a drink from a golden cup, which also endowed the hero with wisdom.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/irishspiritmag/status/1590023742540783618?t=FCBA1DBT8zjGz6YnvhKT2g&s=09
A typical record keeping practice of the High Court of Admiralty in London was to bundle together pieces of evidence taken from captured ships. These court bundles often included various sorts of records such as letters, administrative papers, and books. Strings, belts or ribbons kept the records together.