Announcements

  • Christina Cleary joins the SCF editing team!

    2023-12-12

    We are delighted to announce that Christina Cleary is joining the Studia Celtica Fennica editorial team! Christina is currently a postdoctoral research fellow on the AHRC-funded project ‘eDIL: A chronology of the medieval Irish lexicon’ in Queen’s University Belfast. She has previously held an O’Donovan scholarship at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies where she prepared her forthcoming book The corpus of Middle Irish commentary to the Amrae Coluimb Chille for publication. Recently she published a co-edited volume Essays in memory of Eleanor Knott with Dr Chantal Kobel (DIAS). At present, she is preparing part of her PhD thesis that offers a literary analysis of the remscéla to the Táin bó Cúailnge for publication, as well as the book version of her Primer of Irish Palaeography, which she originally created for the online learning platform Léamh.org. Christina has taught various modules relating to Early Irish language and literature in institutions such as Trinity College Dublin and Uppsala University. She also spent a term as editor-in-chief for the online journal Cerae: An Australasian journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

     

    We like to thank Sarah Waidler for all her years of hard work on this journal, and to wish her the absolute very best of luck with her career.

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  • Call for reviews of digital projects

    2023-02-01

    We would like to welcome reviews of a new kind to Studia Celtica Fennica. Digital projects are having an increasing significance in our research – both for the researcher who uses them on a daily basis as well as for grant applications. However, these projects, which cost substantial amounts of energy, expertise, time, and money to those who produce them, are almost invisible in journals and are thus much less visible in researchers' CVs. While there are certainly reasons for that lesser visibility, i.e. a potential instability of a digital project in contrast to the longevity of a published book, we assume that digital projects and people who produce them require more attention in form of reviews. As an open-access journal we see Studia Celtica Fennica as a suitable carrier of reviews for digital projects, since the journal’s medium allows for presenting online projects with their urls in a reader-friendly way. We therefore welcome reviews of recent digital projects in all the fields of Celtic Studies. 

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  • Call for reviews of digital projects

    2023-02-01

    We would like to welcome reviews of a new kind to Studia Celtica Fennica. Digital projects are having an increasing significance in our research – both for the researcher who uses them on a daily basis as well as for grant applications. However, these projects, which cost substantial amounts of energy, expertise, time, and money to those who produce them, are almost invisible in journals and are thus much less visible in researchers' CVs. While there are certainly reasons for that lesser visibility, i.e. a potential instability of a digital project in contrast to the longevity of a published book, we assume that digital projects and people who produce them require more attention in form of reviews. As an open-access journal we see Studia Celtica Fennica as a suitable carrier of reviews for digital projects, since the journal’s medium allows for presenting online projects with their urls in a reader-friendly way. We therefore welcome reviews of recent digital projects in all the fields of Celtic Studies. 

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  • Elena Parina joins the SCF editing team!

    2022-09-20

    We are delighted to announce that Elena Parina is joining the Studia Celtica Fennica editorial team! Dr Elena Parina is currently a research fellow at the Institute of Comparative Linguistics and Celtic Studies (FB10) of the Philipps-Universität Marburg. Her main interests are Welsh literature and language, above all translations into Middle and Early Modern Welsh. Together with Prof. Erich Poppe she leads a DFG-project "Early Modern Cultures of Translation in Wales: Innovations and Continuities“ https://www.spp2130.de/index.../en/translating-into-welshii/ within SPP 2130 "Early Modern Translation Cultures“. From 1st October, Elena will be Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn.


    We'd like to thank Dr Silva Nurmio for all her years of hard work on this journal, and to wish her the absolute very best of luck with her new Academy of Finland project, "Make it Count: New Advances in Understanding Grammatical Number." 

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  • First review of SCF XVIII (2022) published

    2022-06-28

    We are extremely pleased to open our 2022 issue with a review of Filippo Motta’s Studi celtici by David Stifter. Please enjoy reading it below on our website (or download it to add to your collection!). We are busy working on several reviews and articles to feature in this year’s volume which we will be publishing throughout the year. Our previous volume, SCF XVII (2020–2021), can now be found in the ‘Archives’ section of our website, where all articles and reviews are freely accessible (along with those from all our previous volumes). Please do also consider submitting your work to SCF XVIII. We have a rolling submission system and we start work on peer-reviewing and editing as soon as your article arrives in our system. Congratulations to David and our thanks to him for opening this year’s volume!

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  • Three new reviews published in SCF XVII (2020–2021)!

    2021-10-26

    Three more reviews are now available from SCF XVII! You can read Chantal Kobel’s review of P. Moran’s De origine scoticae linguae (O’Mulconry’s Glossary): An Early Irish Linguistic Tract, with a Related Glossary, Irsan; S. Ní Mhurchú’s review of T. Ó Síocháin’s Caoilte sa Luath-Fhiannaíocht and Alex Woolf’s review of B. Guy’s Medieval Welsh Genealogy: An Introduction and Textual Study online below or on our Current Issue page (https://journal.fi/scf/issue/view/7143). Feel free to download them as well to read in your own time!

    More publications are forthcoming so please watch this space. Congratulations and many thanks to all our authors!

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  • Two new publications from SCF XVII!

    2021-06-16

    We are excited to announce two more publications from SCF XVII! Andrew Lind’s review of the Scottish History Society’s Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume XVI and Karie Schultz’s review of C. R. Langley’s The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638–1689 are both live and can be accessed below or through our Current Issue page.

     

    We look forward to bringing you more publications over the summer from this issue and our congratulations to Andrew and Karie!  

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  • First Publication from SCF XVII (2020–2021)!

    2021-02-23

    We are pleased to announce our first publication from SCF XVII (2020–2021)! Lindy Brady’s review of D. Callander’s Dissonant Neighbours: Narrative Progress in Early Welsh & English Poetry is our first publication of this issue and is available at the bottom of our website with a simple click.

    More publications from this issue are forthcoming and will be published on the website as they go through our editing process. Our online publishing system is now up and running and we are excited to bring high-quality publications quickly to a computer near you!

    Our congratulations to Lindy!

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  • Call for Papers for Studia Celtica Fennica XVII 2020/2021

    2021-02-15

    Papers are invited for volume XVII of Studia Celtica Fennica, the peer-reviewed annual publication of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies SFKS ry. Due to Covid-19, this volume will consist of both the years 2020 and 2021. Please note that all submissions will undergo a peer review process before we make the decision to publish.

    We welcome submissions of articles and book reviews written in all major European languages and Celtic languages as well as Finnish and Swedish. We now accept articles throughout the year, but articles should be submitted in good time in order to be published in the current year’s volume. All articles are published as soon as they have passed through our peer review and copy-editing process and therefore can be published much faster than in traditional print journals, while still possessing all the same credentials.

    If you are interested in reviewing a book for the journal, please contact us with the relevant title.

    Studia Celtica Fennica has adopted an open access policy with the volumes published online on an open access platform. Please note that the articles are submitted only through the open access platform at https://journal.fi/scf/

    For further information and submission guidelines, please consult the open access platform at https://journal.fi/scf/about/submissions

    For any enquiries, please contact the editors.

     

    Editors in chief:

    Ciaran McDonough: ciaran.mcdonough@ucd.ie

    Silva Nurmio: silva.nurmio@helsinki.fi

    Sarah Waidler: sw157@nyu.edu

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  • Ciaran McDonough joins the SCF team as our new co-editor!

    2021-01-14

    We are extremely excited to welcome Dr Ciaran McDonough to the editorial team of Studia Celtica Fennica! Ciaran is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, and Folklore at University College Dublin. She has held postdoctoral and teaching positions at National University of Ireland, Galway, and was awarded a PhD by the same institution in 2017 for a thesis on nineteenth-century Irish antiquarianism. We are so pleased to have Ciaran working with us and are looking forward to the new directions in which her expertise can take the journal. You can read more about Ciaran’s work here. Welcome, Ciaran, to the SCF team!

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  • Important changes to how SCF is published

    2020-06-04

    Studia Celtica Fennica is changing its format in two important ways. Firstly, starting with the 2020 issue, SCF will be exclusively online. Secondly, SCF will move to a rolling publication schedule which means that articles can be published as soon as they have been through peer review and copy editing. As we have seen in recent months, the need for material that is accessible wherever and whenever to everyone is of utmost importance for the production and dissemination of high-quality scholarship. The decision was made last year to make SCF completely Open Access for all readers, a change which has been met with a great deal of enthusiasm by readers, libraries and contributors. Along with many other journals in the humanities, we have also found that our publications are accessed in far greater numbers online, especially as many universities and public libraries throughout the world now include a link to our website and all past issues in their online catalogues. As editors we want to focus our energies on continuing to grow the journal in this direction and to raise the profile of SCF through recognition by various bodies within the humanities, as we believe that this best serves our contributors and readers.

     

    The decision to move away from a print journal format has also been made specifically with our authors in mind. As an online journal, we can publish articles faster, enabling our contributors to have their work published as soon as it has been through our stringent peer-review and copy-editing process. All articles will still be part of a journal issue, have DOIs and ‘look’ like the articles previously published in the print journal. However, each article will be published on our website once it is ready, with the entire issue being completed at the end of the calendar year. We hope that this will in particular benefit early career scholars and others who need evidence of having produced quality peer-reviewed publications at a faster rate during the job application process.

     

    The move to an online format also brings with it a change to our annual deadline for articles, as we now can accept and publish articles and book reviews on a rolling basis throughout the year. Our submission process otherwise remains the same and we look forward to reading future pieces from both returning and new authors.

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  • Studia Celtica Fennica XVI (2019) is now online!

    2020-05-21

    We are pleased to announce the publication of Studia Celtica Fennica XVI (2019). The journal is accessible at https://journal.fi/scf/issue/view/6165 and is available to order as a print volume.

    Congratulations to all of our contributors!

     

    Contents:

    George Broderick

    ‘Manx Traditional Songs, Rhymes and Chants in the Repertoire of the Last Native Manx Speakers’

     

    Erich Poppe

    ‘Beyond ‘Word-for-Word’: Gruffudd Bola and Robert Gwyn on Translating into Welsh’

     

    Ariana Malthaner

    ‘The Intersection of Literature and Law: The Saga of Fergus mac Léti’

     

    Siarl Ferdinand

    ‘The Promotion of Cornish in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: Attitudes towards the Language and Recommendations for Policy’

     

    Kirja-arvosteluja — Book reviews

     

    Phillip A. Bernhardt-House

    Pilgrimage to Heaven: Eschatology and Monastic Spirituality in Early Medieval Ireland by K. Ritari’

     

    Andrew Breeze

    The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain by G. Lewis & R. Williams’

     

    David Callander

    Buchedd Beuno: The Middle Welsh Life of St Beuno by P. Sims-Williams’

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  • CALL FOR PAPERS: STUDIA CELTICA FENNICA XVI (2019)

    2019-06-12

    Papers are invited for volume XVI of Studia Celtica Fennica. Please note that all submissions will undergo a peer review process before we make the decision to publish.

    We welcome submissions of articles and book reviews written in all major European languages and Celtic languages as well as Finnish and Swedish. The deadline for articles is 1st August 2019. The deadline for book reviews is 30th September 2019.


    Studia Celtica Fennica has adopted an open access policy with the volumes published online on an open access platform at the same time with the publication of the printed issue. Please note that the articles are submitted only through the open access platform at https://journal.fi/scf/

    For further information and submission guidelines, please consult the open access platform at https://journal.fi/scf/about/submissions

    For any enquiries, please contact the editors.

    Editors in chief:
    Silva Nurmio: silva.nurmio@helsinki.fi
    Erkki Kulovesi: erkki.kulovesi@helsinki.fi
    Sarah Waidler: sw157@nyu.edu
    Review editor:
    Antti Lampinen: antti.lampinen@helsinki.fi

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  • Studia Celtica Fennica XV (2018) now available online

    2019-05-15

    Tom Sjöblom

    In Memoriam - Anders Ahlqvist

    Alexandra Bergholm

    Immram curaig Maile Duin: Máel Dúinin veneen merimatka

    George Broderick

    Manx Traditional Songs and Song-fragments in the End-phase of Manx Gaelic: From the Clague Music Collection (1890s)

    Kristen Mills
    Glossing the Glosses: The Right Marginal Notes on Glaidomuin and Gudomhuin in TCD MS 1337

    Andrew Newby
    “A Project So Flashy And Bizarre”: Irish Volunteers and the Second Schleswig War

    Anna June Pagé
    Deirdriu and Heroic Biography
     

    Kirja-arvosteluja — Book reviews

    The issue is available here

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  • Studia Celtica Fennica XIV (2017) now available online!

    2018-12-05

    Studia Celtica Fennica

    No. XIV 2017

     

    Studia Celtica Fennica XIV

    2017

     

    Esipuhe / Editorial

     

    Phillip A. Bernhardt-House

    Binding the Wolf, Leashing the Hound: Canid Eschatologies in Irish and Norse Myth

     

    George Broderick

    The Last Native Manx Gaelic Speakers. The Final Phase: ‘Full’ or ‘Terminal’ in speech?

     

    John Collis

    Celts Ancient and Modern: Recent Controversies in Celtic Studies

     

    Grigory Grigoryev

    Bachal Isu: the Symbolism of St. Patrick’s Crosier in Early Medieval Irish Hagiography

     

    Mikhail Kiselev

    Some notes on origin of motif of the Ulaid’s false beards in Cáth Áenaig Macha and

    Cóir Anmann

     

    Ksenia Kudenko

    Tochmarc Moméra as Echtra to the Otherworld

     

    Eugene McKendry

    Celtic Languages in Education in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

     

    Kevin Murray

    H and the First Recension of the Táin

     

    Joseph Nagy

    The Pride of Heroes and the Problems of Readers of Medieval Celtic Literature

     

    Tomás O’Cathasaigh

    The Ulster Exiles and Thematic Symmetry in Recension I of Tain Bo Cuailnge

     

    Jouna Pyysalo

    A Minor Sound Law for Celtic

     

    Arvosteluja—Reviews

     

     

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  • SCF going (more) Open Access

    2018-09-10

    The Board of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies decided in our last meeting that Studia Celtica Fennica will from now on be made available online immediately upon the publication of the print journal. The previous policy was to make articles available a year after their publication in print. We want to follow recent trends in Open Access publishing and make SCF articles freely available as soon as possible. We think that this is particularly important for a small subject the students and practitioners of which are often scattered in universities with limited access to Celtic Studies materials (such as ourselves in Helsinki). The print version will remain available as before.

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  • Studia Celtica Fennica XIII (2016) now available online

    2017-11-15

    Studia Celtica Fennica is now XIII (2016) available online in open access. SCF XIII (2016) celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies and it showcases Celtic scholarship in Finland. The journal also includes a short history of the society.

     

    Riitta Latvio:

    Finnish Society for Celtic Studies—the First 25 Years

     

    Alexandra Bergholm & Katja Ritari:

    Fingal Rónáin: Rónánin suvun surma

     

    Andrew Newby:

    ‘Os Selve Alene’: A Norwegian Account of the Easter Rising

     

    Jouna Pyysalo:

    Ten New Etymologies between Old Gaulish and the Indo-European Languages

     

    Ilona Tuomi:

    'As I went up the Hill of Mount Olive': The Irish Tradition of the Three Good Brothers Charm Revisited

     

    Reviews

     

     

     

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  • Call for papers Studia Celtica Fennica XV (2018)

    2017-11-01

     

    Papers are invited for volume XV of Studia Celtica Fennica, the peer-reviewed annual publication of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies SFKS ry. Please note that all submissions will undergo a peer review process before we make the decision to publish.


    We welcome submissions of articles and book reviews written in all major European languages and Celtic languages as well as Finnish and Swedish. The deadline for articles is 30th May 2018. The deadline for book reviews is 31st August 2018.

     

    Studia Celtica Fennica has adopted a delayed open access policy with the volumes published online on an open access platform a year after the publication of the printed issue. Please note that the articles are submitted only through the open access platform at https://journal.fi/scf/

     

     

    For further information and submission guidelines, please consult the open access platform at https://journal.fi/scf/about/submissions

     

    For any enquiries, please contact the editors.

    Editors in chief:


    Katja Ritari

    katja.ritari(at)helsinki.fi

    Antti Lampinen

    ajlamp(at)utu.fi

     

    Review editor:

     

    Alexandra Bergholm

    alexandra.bergholm(at)helsinki.fi

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  • Studia Celtica Fennica XIII (2016) is available

    2017-05-30

     Studia Celtica Fennica XIII (2016) celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies and it showcases Celtic scholarship in Finland. The journal also includes a short history of the society.

     

    Riitta Latvio:

    Finnish Society for Celtic Studies—the First 25 Years

     

    Alexandra Bergholm & Katja Ritari:

    Fingal Rónáin: Rónánin suvun surma

     

    Andrew Newby:

    ‘Os Selve Alene’: A Norwegian Account of the Easter Rising

     

    Jouna Pyysalo:

    Ten New Etymologies between Old Gaulish and the Indo-European Languages

     

    Ilona Tuomi:

    'As I went up the Hill of Mount Olive': The Irish Tradition of the Three Good Brothers Charm Revisited

     

     

    Read more about Studia Celtica Fennica XIII (2016) is available