https://mla.hcommons.org/members/southron63/activity/ Activity feed for Alex Woolf. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 cc4e443fbe7dd65e357d8babaab75fe8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1941781/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:23:23 -0500 0 c7ca335985e878e76fc907ab10b434d3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1928597/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:14:28 -0400 0 40fde1462069e16f459de2a582d32885 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715167/ Sun, 01 Nov 2020 02:24:38 -0500 This chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbd0c9bc34e2d7abb17146257f1b15e8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715166/ Sun, 01 Nov 2020 02:24:13 -0500 This chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]

]]> 0 acc8468b1bb623e7da4111975b3edb13 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715135/ Sat, 31 Oct 2020 10:22:37 -0400 This chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ffd3ffd061bfc24fe44e54ae8b3eb63 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693784/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:29:10 -0400 This paper examines the nature and basis of the competition between the dynasty based in Moray, to which the famous MacBeth belonged, and the mainline of Scottish kings.

]]> 0 9477fc58ecd5823196f37c44bb1dc652 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693783/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:28:43 -0400 This article examines the evidence for Pictish kingship being transmitted through the female line.

]]> 0 0620f19e74e23be196b0bd5c59c7fa60 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693782/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:28:17 -0400 This paper discussed the micro demography of households in later prehistoric and early medieval northern Europe.

]]> 0 2e2ecece5655cb1627aaba85ea3b9a7f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693781/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:27:48 -0400 An examination of the career of the quondam king of Dublin and Northumbria Óláfr Kvaran.

]]> 0 2da7e96760ed6ddcf3bbb51379ea84cf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693779/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:27:19 -0400 The title is a terrible editorial imposition. This article argues that the term ‘Scotland’ though not attested before the late ninth-century (for Ireland) and the early tenth (for Alba) was probably already in use as the Northumbrian English term for Dál Riata in the time of Bede and certainly by the beginning of the Viking Age.

]]> 0 7c358cdc9890b6131126c478c8e8ecea https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693778/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:27:19 -0400 This paper attempts to correlate Bede’s account of the British king Caedualla, to whom he attributed Edwin’s death, with the information provided by Historia Brittonum and the Harleian pedigrees. It is suggested, inter alia, that his identification with Cadwallon ap Cadfan may be in error.

]]> 0 d15c69df33b90b48ea0a5c5b7ff4b234 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693777/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:26:49 -0400 This paper attempts to correlate Bede’s account of the British king Caedualla, to whom he attributed Edwin’s death, with the information provided by Historia Brittonum and the Harleian pedigrees. It is suggested, inter alia, that his identification with Cadwallon ap Cadfan may be in error.

]]> 0 92ca89c65be1f1e93750e5442722c49b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693776/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:26:49 -0400 This paper examines the career and reputation of perhaps the longest reigning Pictish king, Onuist son of Urguist, who was a contemporary of Offa of Mercia.

]]> 0 202fd913fd56a55a0402b8e7c79aeb75 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693775/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:26:17 -0400 This paper examines the career and reputation of perhaps the longest reigning Pictish king, Onuist son of Urguist, who was a contemporary of Offa of Mercia.

]]> 0 17d299793be83fed2657628e85ded702 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693774/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:25:51 -0400 This brief note reconsiders the standard translation of a brief passage in the Annals of Ulster and considers the implications of this alternate view.

]]> 0 877b33cf7117c36c07b44a6947b3f032 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693773/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:25:50 -0400 In the nineteenth century the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu and the site of
the Battle of Nechtansmere were located by scholars in Menteith and
Strathearn and at Dunnichen in Forfarshire respectively. These identifications
have largely gone unchallenged. The purpose of this article is to
review the evidence for these locations and to suggest that…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ad8c42df500204adb494ca31c3eaed0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693772/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 16:25:22 -0400 In the nineteenth century the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu and the site of
the Battle of Nechtansmere were located by scholars in Menteith and
Strathearn and at Dunnichen in Forfarshire respectively. These identifications
have largely gone unchallenged. The purpose of this article is to
review the evidence for these locations and to suggest that…[Read more]

]]> 0 54670df8f170527320c6179d2ee847f5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693743/ Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:16:37 -0400 This paper examines the nature and basis of the competition between the dynasty based in Moray, to which the famous MacBeth belonged, and the mainline of Scottish kings.

]]> 0 fd1be635a84948948d4091521ccfe88a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693666/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:51:19 -0400 A retelling of the Snow White story set in late-ninth century Bohemia

]]> 0 3db5d70e2dca8d623ae52c2c9d19d00d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693664/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:36:15 -0400 This paper discussed the micro demography of households in later prehistoric and early medieval northern Europe.

]]> 0 f03ef33b78316b35e57b68f3d6f9c479 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693663/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:30:02 -0400 This article examines the evidence for Pictish kingship being transmitted through the female line.

]]> 0 b3c7a2dd5409ff910b741e207d19031b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693662/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:23:01 -0400 An examination of the career of the quondam king of Dublin and Northumbria Óláfr Kvaran.

]]> 0 b668880bc07cb04773db69e233891220 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693661/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:16:41 -0400 The title is a terrible editorial imposition. This article argues that the term ‘Scotland’ though not attested before the late ninth-century (for Ireland) and the early tenth (for Alba) was probably already in use as the Northumbrian English term for Dál Riata in the time of Bede and certainly by the beginning of the Viking Age.

]]> 0 1a7e7a7dac8b83c3800523383f6ee7b0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693660/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:10:22 -0400 This paper attempts to correlate Bede’s account of the British king Caedualla, to whom he attributed Edwin’s death, with the information provided by Historia Brittonum and the Harleian pedigrees. It is suggested, inter alia, that his identification with Cadwallon ap Cadfan may be in error.

]]> 0 dcbb75682fac055836c18975bc1452d8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693659/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:03:21 -0400 This paper examines the career and reputation of perhaps the longest reigning Pictish king, Onuist son of Urguist, who was a contemporary of Offa of Mercia.

]]> 0 f44fce488b40e4b289a350ed9c3ea9ef https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693658/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:55:35 -0400 This paper re-examines the late medieval and early modern pedigrees of the families claiming descent from Somerled mac Gillebrigte and argues that the earlier part of the pedigree was constructed in the fourteenth century or later.

]]> 0 9cbb005724aaf228b7c724c19a5e1878 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693657/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:51:15 -0400 This brief note reconsiders the standard translation of a brief passage in the Annals of Ulster and considers the implications of this alternate view.

]]> 0 2d15725cb100b9382c902932f4f87620 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693656/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:45:55 -0400 In the nineteenth century the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu and the site of
the Battle of Nechtansmere were located by scholars in Menteith and
Strathearn and at Dunnichen in Forfarshire respectively. These identifications
have largely gone unchallenged. The purpose of this article is to
review the evidence for these locations and to suggest that…[Read more]

]]> 0 1759046d225c48fb1f0ecd6b40aca094 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693635/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:55:47 -0400 In 1247, in conflict with English forces, a man described as MacSomhairle, King of Argyll, was slain at Ballyshannon in Donegal. This paper seeks to identify which member of the kindred descend from Somerled this was and to investigate the context of his intervention in Irish politics.

]]> 0 682a339cf3414654d02dae60e6d76806 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693633/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:31:32 -0400 It does what it says on the tin.

]]> 0 e5387a7452e169cb699946a3c46ed121 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693632/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:20:03 -0400 This paper looks at Jämtland, a province now in Sweden but, until the seventeenth century considered a dependency of the Norwegian crown. The paper considers the textual and archaeological evidence that Scandinavian (as opposed to Saami) settlement in the region originated from Trondelag, in Central Norway, and goes on to look at the conflicting…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b4d4051574b759426b9cb87a6561f4c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693631/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:01:09 -0400 This book looks at how early medieval texts explained the abandonment of hillforts observed in the landscape with refence to providential models of history. the main example focused upon in the account of Moel Fenlle in Historia Brittonum.

]]> 0 5f5510502d18bfbd8bdde4cfffa0446c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693629/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:36:59 -0400 This chapter discusses the reporting of events in what would become Scotland in the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. Observations are made on the perspective of the chroniclers and the sources of their information.

]]> 0 dbf11e4379fcdc6302134f658de506e2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693628/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:29:56 -0400 This paper examines the twelfth-century Latin poem known as the Song of the Death of Somerled and argues that contrary to previous interpretations the action in the poem covers two separate events eleven years apart; a successful attack on Glasgow in 1153 and a the final battle in which Somerled dies in 1164.

]]> 0 495386e01ef80e836cc1b06f367d426a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693627/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:03:07 -0400 This article deploys both textual and archaeological evidence to question the assumption that retained court poets existed in pre-Viking Age Ireland.

]]> 0 a0ab609a2701cabcd14c8c9e28aeaf0b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693626/ Sat, 27 Jun 2020 09:32:47 -0400 This paper revisits the idea that there was a direct link between Sweden and the the rites and materials found in the cemetery at Sutton Hoo. It argues instead that both Sweden and and East Anglia were frontier regions on the edge of a core located in Danish territories.

]]> 0 170d609e04bb08106fc027bc5d15eb3c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693551/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:25:43 -0400 This essay reflects on the developments in our understanding of the Pictish Church since Kathleen Hughes visited the topic half a century ago.

]]> 0 fed6677f86050a8b0cd7c88052f18fd8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693547/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:19:48 -0400 A brief historical interpretation based upon the excavations carried out at the Northumbrian ecclesiastical site at Auldhame in East Lothian.

]]> 0 9711332ab0943ed6cb020df1cb5f2f00 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693545/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 16:00:19 -0400 This chapter looks at the use of the word plebs in a number of Late Antique texts thought to be written by Britons and discusses what this reveals about the social and ecclesiastical conditions amongst the Britons in the fifth and sixth centuries.

]]> 0 7a25cb65e7d8fd926fe59b4822a57e6d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693527/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:37:01 -0400 This paper attempts to look at the evidence for English ideas about their own national origins in the period before Bede.

]]> 0 8c790feb1ce11ed03f05b9e8b51948e7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693526/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:30:10 -0400 This short note cautions against essentialist ways of thinking about the Picts and reminds readers that the term itself is an exonym and that there is little or no evidence that the people we call Picts had any self identification as a group.

]]> 0 44f02530b41014d3c5009118db5dd8de https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693524/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:20:54 -0400 A discussion of the educational context of Columbanus in and around Bangor and Moville in the sixth century.

]]> 0 ce5476fe7d9295e59791487115d18380 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693522/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:09:57 -0400 A chapter in volume 1 of the Cambridge History of Ireland

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