Libraries and Codex Sources Around The World of Pagan Interest.

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• Project Runeberg publishes Nordic literature on the Internet since 1992.

• This means free electronic editions of old books from Sweden and the Nordic countries.

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http://runeberg.org/admin/


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Celtic:

CELT Corpus of Electronic Text
Mission Statement
To bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly and user-friendly project for the widest possible range of readers and researchers. CELT (the Corpus of Electronic Texts) caters for academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public, all over the world. Texts are accompanied by introductions, background information, graphics, translations where possible, and scholarly bibliographies. CELT is integrated into the teaching and research community of UCC, and far beyond. It draws on the resources of that community and contributes to its work. UCC has charitable status, i.e. donations which help CELT continue its work can be made tax-effectively from Ireland and the USA (see Donations webpage).
The languages used in Ireland in the historic past were many. Languages known to us through extant texts include Irish of all periods, English, Hiberno-Norman French, some Old Norse (including some runic inscriptions) and Latin. Other languages were used by clerics, political leaders, scholars, merchants, diplomats, or emigrants (Spanish, Italian, modern French, Provençal, Dutch, Danish).
Background
CELT grew out of the joint involvement of the Department of History and the Computer Centre over many years, including the former CURIA project. Other humanities resources at UCC are Documents of Ireland, the journals Peritia, Chronicon, and History Ireland, and the Cork Multi-Text Project. CELT has become a major academic resource nationally and internationally, and is providing skills and expertise applicable in many other fields.
Aims and Objectives
CELT is producing an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It is showcasing Ireland's heritage, and providing material for the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. The texts can be searched, read on-screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out.
Methods
Texts are taken from the best printed editions*, scanned, and proofread. Markup for structural and analytic features is added according to the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Conversions to HTML are made for online reading, and the master files can be used to create versions in other formats, and for contextual searching, concordancing, and other analyses.
* For copyright reasons not all texts are available. The CELT project does not publish material without copyright permission (or expiry).
http://www.ucc.ie/celt/irllist.html

Chronicon
 is a freely available electronic journal devoted to History - ancient, medieval and modern - with a particular focus on Irish History. It is published by the History Department of University College Cork, Ireland. Articles are published in HTML markup and, from volume 3 onwards, in PDF format.

The journal also publishes reviews and notices of events. Articles, reviews and announcements of forthcoming events should be sent to the editor, Damian Bracken, Department of History, University College Cork, Ireland; email: d.bracken@ucc.ie or dbracken@bu.edu. For further information, click on Submissions.

http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/index.html

CODEXs:


Project:CODECS
CODECS beta
by  D. G. (talk)
last edited:  27 May 2015
Welcome to the beta version of CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies. While its name and design are indeed new, this website continues the collection of digital resources, including the selgā catalogue and Tionscadal na Nod, which was formerly accommodated on the main website of the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies (itself now at www.vanhamel.nl/stichting). The project is still published by the Foundation and directed by board member Dennis Groenewegen.
As you may have read over at www.vanhamel.nl, this part of the website needed to be taken offline while a major transition was in force. This was not so much a technical issue as a matter of insufficient resources at our disposal (remember that the project has carried on without any outside funding). A combination of unfortunate circumstances, however, led to a considerably longer period of delay than anticipated. It was in the middle of a series of scheduled activities when I had to devote more of my time and energy to a grievous personal situation. At this time, my father, who had been suffering from malignant mesothelioma, was becoming increasingly weaker every day. He sadly passed away on the 29th of April.

The release of a beta version might seem premature, but I found myself a little overwhelmed by the many messages that have reached me lately. Many visitors, in fact, seem to have been relying on the availability of the website. I have, therefore, decided to reopen it even in its unfinished, somewhat unsteady state. Obviously, this comes with a hefty disclaimer, but most of you should be able to find your way around these parts as you used to.


http://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Project:CODECS

Internet Sacred Text Archive

Welcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web. 

Archive.org
Books.goolge.com
gutenberg.org
http://www.globalgreyebooks.com/

https://openlibrary.org/

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Ireland:
Ask about Ireland
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/digital-book-collection/

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Library Ireland, Irish Books On-Line
http://www.libraryireland.com/SocialHistoryAncientIreland/II-VIII-1.php


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USA:

Name: Adocentyn Research Library – A Pagan Library for the San Francisco Bay Area
Description: private Pagan library open to the public for on-site use; resources for “pagan Studies”, i.e. Pagans studying Paganism and non-Pagans studying PagansLocation: 1029 A Solano Ave., Albany, CA 94706
# of Books: ~13,000


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Virtual Libraries:

• Celtic
  • The Camelot Project: An unbelieveable resource for Middle English Arthurian texts.
  • Carmina Gadelica: This contains the first two volume of the Carmina Gadelica, a landmark collection of prayer-spells from Scotland, many of which are a barely-Christianized version of earlier beliefs.
  • CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts: Where you can find all sorts of Irish texts--annals, epics, and so on. Some are translated, others are not.
  • The Celtic Christianity e-Library: containing several texts, such as the imramma and saints' lives.
  • Celtic Twilight: Here you can find Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, Gildas' De Excido, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Middle English.
  • Cornish Language Texts: The most complete collection of classical Cornish texts on the web.
  • Corpus of Gaulish Inscriptions
  • Corpus of Ogham Inscriptions
  • Corpus of Old Welsh Texts
  • Dan Direach: Translations of medieval Irish poetry.
  • The Donegal Fairy Tales: Jeremiah Curtain's classic of Irish fairy tales.
  • Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language 1500-1850: at Cambridge University.
  • The Manx Notebook: A great collection of full texts on Manx folklore.
  • Nemeton: A wonderful, growing collection of medieval Welsh literature. As a bonus, it uses a self-made font that imitates J.G. Evans' typeface for the diplomatic Hergest texts.
  • Ogmios Press: a collection of reprints and facsimilies of early texts, such as the Book of Aneurin, saints' lives, and early Scottish poetry.
  • Oisín i dTír na nÓg: A cute retelling of Oisin in the Land of Youth with pictures by children, in Irish, English, and French.
  • Roman Inscriptions in Britain: a fantastic site, utilizing the out-of-print book of the same name. An important resource.
  • Sengoídelc: Dennis King's collection of Old and Middle Irish quotations--a very interesting site.
  • Tech Sceptra: Erik Stohellou's largely French site, with several Irish texts translated into English with notes by both the original translator and Stohellou.
  • Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae: University College of Dublin's site, featuring editions and translations of many medieval Irish texts; very similar to CELT.
  • Trecheng Breth Féne: The Triads of Ireland: a collection of triads from Irish manuscripts, made by Kuno Meyer in 1906.
  • The Ulster Cycle The most complete collection I've yet to find. I do a lot of linking to this site.
• Iolo Morganwg
  • The University of Wales Iolo Morganwg Project: detailed project, with letters, essays, details of his works and importance in the history of Welsh literature and Welsh nationalism.
  • The Myvyrian Archaiology: vol. I, II, and III.
  • The Barddas of Iolo Morgannwg: the notorious text of the sixteenth century, which claims to be the wisdom of the Welsh bards, but is mostly Morganwg's laudanum-induced ideas.
  • Barddas Online: images of an entire copy of Barddas.
  • The Iolo Manuscripts: more of Iolo's forgeries, this time courtesy of Google Books.
• Norse
  • Northvegr: The most complete collection of Norse, Germanic, and Old English literature.
  • Norse Saga Home Page: untranslated sagas
  • Netútgáfan: old Norse literature
  • Sagnanetið: images of Norse manuscripts
  • Skaldic Editing Project
• Classical
  • Ancient Greek Texts
  • Année Epigraphique: Selections from the journal of Latin inscriptions
  • Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: Portions of the monster-sized CIL; hopefully some day, the whole thing will make it to the web.
  • Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: texts in Latin.
  • Early Christian Writings
  • Early Jewish Writings
  • Internet Classics Archive
  • Lacus Curtius
  • Perseus Collection of Classical Materials
• Medieval
  • Chansons de trouvères: medieval poetry of the French troubadores, untranslated.
  • The Corpus of Medieval English Texts
  • Froissart's Chronicles
  • The Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Containing any number of important texts.
  • In Parentheses: York University's wonderful collection of medieval texts, in PDF format.
  • OMALC: The Online Medieval and Classical Library.
  • The Robin Hood Project: From the same people who brought you the Camelot Project, this site contains the existing Robin Hood ballads from the 13th century onward.
  • The Sir Thomas Malory Society: Has the whole Le Morte d'Arthur in Modern and Middle English.
  • Textes en liberté: many medieval French texts, untranslated.
• General
  • The Avalon Project: Yale's collection of ancient law texts.
  • Sacred Texts: a wonderful site full of just about every sacred text you can think of.
  • RealLiteratureDir.com: collection of biographies on various authors.
• Music
  • Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: A collection of images of the old broadside ballads.
  • Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America: which is pretty much as it sounds--a comprehensive collection of ballads.
  • Welsh Folksongs
  
• Digital Manuscripts:
  • Collections:
    • The Digital Mirror's Treasures: The National Library of Wales' efforts to put their manuscripts online as digitized images.
    • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University: From the various libraries of the colleges of Oxford, includes the most important Red Book of Hergest (see below). Especially check out the Bodlian Library's collection.
    • Irish Scripts On Screen: includes the Book of Leinster and the Book of the Dun Cow.
    • Codices Electronici Sangallenses: The St. Gall manuscripts: Several of the more interesting manuscripts--mostly Latin, some with Irish glosses--in the St. Gall library, Switzerland. The site is mostly in German.
  • Individual Manuscripts:
    • The Black Book of Basingwerk: a 14th century poetry manuscript.
    • The Black Book of Carmarthen: The great-aunt of Welsh manuscripts.
    • The Book of Aneirin: Puts the whole Book of Aneirin online, following J.G. Evans' fascimile.
    • The Book of Deer: Part of an extensive project regarding the manuscript.
    • The Book of Deer: actual images of the manuscript
    • The Book of Kells: where you can order a digital version of the great manuscript.
    • The Book of Taliesin: Yep, the whole book.
    • Hendregadredd manuscript: an early manuscript of Welsh poetry.
    • The Red Book of Hergest: The granddaddy of Welsh manuscripts.
    • The White Book of Rhydderch: Similar to the RBH in its contents, this shows the section containing the Mabinogi and other romances.
    • The Laws of Hwyll Dda: Contains a good many illustrations, which is unusual in Welsh manuscripts.
    • Beunans Ke: the Cornish play "The Life of St. Ke"
    • Beunans Meriasek: the Cornish play "Life of St. Meriasek"
    • St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 555: The Vita S. Columbae of Adamnán.
    • The Prose Lancelot: admittedly, this is a French manuscript, but it still applies in my mind.

Resources:

• Academic Links: Nice collection of important links.
• L'Arbre Celtique: (I don't read French very well, but from what I can tell, it has a great collection of texts related to Gaul).
• Celtic Coin Index: provides images and details of coins in Britain.
• School of Celtic Studies: contains articles from Celtica.
• The Decemberists: OK, I just put this here because they have an 18 minute song/ep about the Tain. And they're awesome.
• The Early British Kingdoms Homepage: A good overview of Early and "Dark Ages" Britian. Also, see the Britannia site--I believe they're done by the same person.
• Epona.net: fantasticly detailed site dedicated to studying the Gaulish goddess Epona.
• International Marie de France Society: a nice overview to her works.
• Ireland's History in Maps: a detailed overview.
• Kernunnos.com: site about early Celtic coins and art.
• Medieval source material on the internet: huge collection of links to texts.
• MS-OMIT: short for Manuscript Sources to Old and Middle Irish Tales. This is a great resource (certainly was for me) for finding both the original sources of most (if not all) Irish tales, as well as any translations in existence.
• Nennius' Wonders of Britain: wonderful site studying the Mirabila of the Historia Brittonum.
• The ORB: The On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. One of the many good medievalist sites out there.
• Scéla: Similar to MS-OMIT.
• Terry Jones' Barbarians: The Primitive Celts: Jones--yes, that Terry Jones--makes history documentaries now, and this is one of my favorites.
• Vortigern Studies: great site devoted to "Dark Ages" Britain, and in particular to Vortigern.

Publishers

• Bardic Press: A new publishing company devoted to reprinting medieval texts. Soon to release a major work on the Mabinogi.
• Chló Mhaigh Eo: publishers of comic books in Irish, on Irish lore, such as the Tain
• Four Courts Press: Ireland's leading academic publisher.
• Llanerch Press: A publishing company devoted to reissuing various Celtic books.
• University of Wales Press: one of the leading academic publishers on Celtic subjects.

Similar Sites:

• Bedd Taliesin: on the grave of Taliesin, Chief Bard of Britain.
• Caer Australis: studying Celtic spirituality and the Celtic calendar with a southern hemisphere emphasis.
• The Castles of Wales: A nice overview of different castles in Wales and their histories.
• The Celtic Art of Courtney Davis: Because he is working in the tradition, creating beautiful works of art.
• The Celtic Tribes of Britain: On Britain in the age of Rome
• The Coligny Calendar: the calendar as inscribed.
• The Earth, The Forge, The Hearth, The Land: Interesting site, focusing on Gaulish and Breton traditions.
• The Gode Cookery: A rather extensive look at medieval food and recipies, as well as a huge amount of medieval woodcuts. Definitely worth the look.
• GC Medieval Woodcuts: The Gode Cookery's medieval woodcut collection
• Gundestrup Cauldron: a site detailing the images of the famous cauldron.
• Ireland's History in Maps
• Irish Myths and Legends: illustrated by children. Kinda cute.
• Kernunnos: a site devoted to the Gaulish god Cernunnos.
• Knowth: examines the famous neolithic passage tombs and other features of prehistoric Ireland. And it has some awesome pictures.
• The Megalith Portal: Charts just about every megalithic spot in the British Isles, with archaeological data, folklore, and how to find them.
• O Gaer Sidi, O Gaer Cariad: a Slovakian site on Welsh literature.
• Patrick Brown's Blog/Ulster Cycle Comic: Patrick Brown used to host the largest collection of texts from the Ulster Cycle, but I think he's retooling that. Instead, he's also giving us his graphic-novel-style retelling of the Táin Bó Cúailgne and the surrounding stories. It's really wonderful.
• The Tam Lin Page: examining the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin and its relationship to other ballads.
• Timeless Myths: A wonderful introduction to European mythology, covering Greco-Roman, Norse, Arthurian, and Celtic myth.
• WorldWideWales: This site features a series of movies on Welsh history, culture, and travel.
• V Wales: they have a nice selection of folklore texts, as well as other elements of Welsh life.

Language Sites:

• Welsh
  • Grammars and Overviews
    • Gwybodiadur: a directory of information for Welsh.
    • Reading Middle Welsh: A Course Book Based on the Welsh of the Mabinogi.
  • Verbix: Conjugating Welsh: I haven't tested this fully, but supposedly it will conjugate most Welsh verbs for you. It's run by UNESCO.
  • A Welsh Language Course and Spell Checker: from Cardiff University
• Dictionaries
  • Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: The 82-year project, completed in 2002, to create a standard Welsh dictionary is now online and available to download in ten pdf files, each around 600 pages each.
  • Geiriadur: UoW, Lampeter's online Welsh-English dictionary.
  • The Welsh-English Lexicon: from Cardiff University
• The Alternative Welsh Dictionary: a few swear words.

Irish

• Grammars
  • Old Irish Online: A course in Old Irish (Sengoidelc), by the University of Texas, Austin
  • Verbix: Conjugating Irish: again, I haven't tested this to see if it's accurate. It's run by UNESCO.
• Dictionaries
  • Early Irish Glossaries Database: a work in progress working with medieval Irish glossaries, like the Sanas Chormaic
  • Gaelic Dictionaries Online: covering Irish, Scottish, and Manx.
  • Irish Dictionary Online
  • An English-Irish Dictionary
  • An Foclóir Beag: from the University of Limerick
  • Gaeilge (Irish) Swearing: WARNING--NOT KID-FRIENDLY!
• Cornish
  • Warlinenn
  • Blas Kernewek: From the BBC
  • Cornish English Dictionary: from Webster's
• Other
  • History and Status of the Welsh Language
  • Celtic Dictionaries
  • Omniglot: a guide to the world's languages.

Religion

• Celtic Christianity Sites:
  • The Celtic Orthodox Christian Church
  • The UW Celtic Christianity MA program
  • Celtic Orthodoxy

Druid and Celtic Pagan Sites:

• Ar nDraoicht Fein: the largest American Druid organization; it's emphasis is comparative mythology among the Indo-Europeans
• Henge of Keltria: Unlike ADF, this Druid group is specifically Irish-oriented. They are large supporters of the Save Taramovement.
• OBOD: the largest British Druid organization
• Isaac Bonewits: founder of ADF and elder in the Druid movement.
• Chronarchy: Michael Dangler's website on being a neodruid.
• Ceisiwr Serith: website on many Neo/Pagan subjects, but especially Proto-Indo-European culture and linguistics.
• Y Baedd Gwyn: a site devoted to Welsh paganism.

Comics

as you see, I read a few comics.
• Achewood
• Cat and Girl
• Sam and Fuzzy
• Dinosaur Comics
• Shortpacked and Roomies/It's Walky/Joyce & Walky by Dave Willis.
• Sinfest
• Beaver and Steve
• White Ninja
• Unshelved
• Questionable Content
• Dr. McNinja:
• Rob and Elliot
• xkcd
• Ulster Cycle Comic: Patrick Brown's giving us his graphic-novel-style retelling of the Táin Bó Cúailgne and the surrounding stories. It's really wonderful.
• Order of the Stick
• The Noob
• Overcompensating & Wigu by Jeffrey Rowland
• Diesel Sweeties
• Goats
• Bad Machinery

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CELT Corpus of Electronic Text

Mission Statement

To bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly and user-friendly project for the widest possible range of readers and researchers. CELT (the Corpus of Electronic Texts) caters for academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public, all over the world. Texts are accompanied by introductions, background information, graphics, translations where possible, and scholarly bibliographies. CELT is integrated into the teaching and research community of UCC, and far beyond. It draws on the resources of that community and contributes to its work. UCC has charitable status, i.e. donations which help CELT continue its work can be made tax-effectively from Ireland and the USA (see Donations webpage).

The languages used in Ireland in the historic past were many. Languages known to us through extant texts include Irish of all periods, English, Hiberno-Norman French, some Old Norse (including some runic inscriptions) and Latin. Other languages were used by clerics, political leaders, scholars, merchants, diplomats, or emigrants (Spanish, Italian, modern French, Provençal, Dutch, Danish).

Background

CELT grew out of the joint involvement of the Department of History and the Computer Centre over many years, including the former CURIA project. Other humanities resources at UCC are Documents of Ireland, the journals Peritia, Chronicon, and History Ireland, and the Cork Multi-Text Project. CELT has become a major academic resource nationally and internationally, and is providing skills and expertise applicable in many other fields.

Aims and Objectives

CELT is producing an online database of contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It is showcasing Ireland's heritage, and providing material for the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. The texts can be searched, read on-screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out.

Methods

Texts are taken from the best printed editions*, scanned, and proofread. Markup for structural and analytic features is added according to the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Conversions to HTML are made for online reading, and the master files can be used to create versions in other formats, and for contextual searching, concordancing, and other analyses.

* For copyright reasons not all texts are available. The CELT project does not publish material without copyright permission (or expiry).

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/irllist.html

CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies.

Project:CODECS
CODECS beta
by  D. G. (talk)
last edited:  27 May 2015
Welcome to the beta version of CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies.
While its name and design are indeed new, this website continues the collection of digital resources,
including the selgā catalogue and Tionscadal na Nod, which was formerly accommodated on the main website
of the A. G. van Hamel Foundation for Celtic Studies (itself now at www.vanhamel.nl/stichting).

The project is still published by the Foundation and directed by board member Dennis Groenewegen.
As you may have read over at www.vanhamel.nl, this part of the website needed to be taken offline
while a major transition was in force. This was not so much a technical issue as a matter of insufficient
resources at our disposal (remember that the project has carried on without any outside funding).
A combination of unfortunate circumstances, however, led to a considerably longer period of delay than anticipated.
It was in the middle of a series of scheduled activities when I had to devote more of my time and energy to a
grievous personal situation. At this time, my father, who had been suffering from malignant mesothelioma,
was becoming increasingly weaker every day. He sadly passed away on the 29th of April.

The release of a beta version might seem premature, but I found myself a little overwhelmed by the many messages
that have reached me lately. Many visitors, in fact, seem to have been relying on the availability of the website.
I have, therefore, decided to reopen it even in its unfinished, somewhat unsteady state. Obviously,
this comes with a hefty disclaimer, but most of you should be able to find your way around these parts as you used to.

http://www.vanhamel.nl/codecs/Project:CODECS

Dictionary Glossary and Language help sites

A very large teaching site.
Scottish Gaelic - Etymology

http://www.engyes.com/en/dic-content/muime

1) MacBain's Dictionary An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/in... 2) In Dúil Bélrai In Dúil Bélrai has two sections: an English - Old-Irish glossary and a Verbforms database http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/sengoidelc...