X-Cc: Multiple recipients of list WELSH-L To: Multiple recipients of list WELSH-L In-Reply-To: <199407181731.KAA27383@uclink.berkeley.edu> On Mon, 18 Jul 1994, William Wilson wrote: ... ... > A question for Heather Rose Jones, did you start your study of Welsh before > or after joining the SCA? Before, as it happens. I started studying Welsh (very tentatively at the time) back in 1976 shortly after my first visit to Wales and as a direct result of an interest in my family's Welsh connections. The SCA came later, but the two interests have certainly fed on each other to a large extent. The SCA is certainly the reason for my interest in Medieval Welsh and even older forms of the language, and in return, that interest is what led me to my current graduate studies in linguistics. And, yes, I too am embarassed and annoyed by the mystical Newage (rhymes with "sewage") types who think "Celtic stuff" is inherently mystical and seem to forget that they're tinkering with living cultures. But then, the same people play around with Native American cultures in the same way, so the Celts don't have to feel singled out. Heather Rose Jones