Summary Celts, Gaels, and Britons offers a miscellany of essays exploring three closely connected areas within the fields of Celtic Studies in order to shed new light on the ancient and medieval Celtic languages and their literatures. Taking as its inspiration the scholarship of Professor Patrick Sims-Williams, to whom this volume is dedicated, the papers gathered together here explore the Continental Celtic languages, texts from the Irish Sea world, and the literature and linguistics of the British languages, among them Welsh and Cornish. With essays from eighteen leading scholars in the field, this in-depth volume serves not only as a monument to the rich and varied career of Sims-Williams, but also offers a wealth of commentary and information to present significant primary research and reconsiderations of existing scholarship. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of illustrations Abbreviations Rhagymadrodd Introduction John Scottus Eriugena and Celtica eloquentia Simon Rodway (with a contribution by Barry J. Lewis) Taruoture?ka tureita: A Celtiberian Collocation Javier de Hoz More Celtic, More from Pannonia Alexander Falileyev An Old Irish Text on Kingship and the Five Provinces of Ireland Liam Breatnach British and Irish? Some Thoughts on the Life of Saint Ailbe Máire Herbert Irish Influence on Old Norse Literature? Immram to Hvítramannaland Máire Ní Mhaonaigh Romanization and the British Bards Jenny Rowland A Note on the Four Bare-Headed Women in 'Echrys Ynys' William Mahon Llythyr Gofyn gan Siôn Phylip Bleddyn Owen Huws The Development of Proto-Celtic *st in British Celtic Peter Schrijver The Development of Proto-Celtic *au in British Celtic Stefan Schumacher The Corpus of Old Cornish Oliver Padel Bardic Grammars on Syllables Thomas Charles-Edwards The Joy of Six: Spelling and Letter-Forms among Fourteenth-Century Welsh Scribes Paul Russell The Development of Realis Conditional Clauses in Welsh David Willis A Contribution to Subaltern Linguistics. Welsh Dim in Comparative (and Similar) Clauses Richard Glyn Roberts Traces of Translation in Buchedd Beuno? Erich Poppe Welsh hoyw. A Case Study in Language Contact Dafydd Johnston