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Runologist, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David

Dr David Parsons

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Dr David Parsons Ma, PhD, is a Reader at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.

David Parsons works on the vernacular languages of medieval Britain, particularly as revealed by place-names. He is currently writing the English Place-Name Society’s volume on the hundred of Oswestry in north-west Shropshire, an area where the Welsh language flourished until modern times.

He has recently completed a separate monograph on some medieval sources for this fascinating linguistic border zone. Other current projects include articles on the interplay of Norse, English, Gaelic and British (Cumbric) in north-west England; on the survival of Latin as a spoken language in post-Roman Britain; on the evidence of place-names for the medieval church in England and Wales; and on the early medieval inscriptions of south-western Scotland.

Read Dr David Parsons academic profile.

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