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SNSBI 2005 Swansea meeting (University of Wales, April 02–05)

This meeting is reported upon by P.R.K. in Nomina 28, 157–159.

Saturday 2 April

  • Professor Prys Morgan: Swansea and Gower – an illustrated tour

Sunday 3 April

  • Professor Hywel Wyn Owen and Gruff Prys: Archif Melville Richards – a place-name resource database
  • Dr Simon Taylor: A survey of place-names in Fife: towards a national place-name survey of place-names of Scotland
  • Dr David Parsons and Dr Paul Cullen: The vocabulary of English place-names
  • Dr Duncan Probert: Anglo-Saxons in Devon
  • John and Sheila Rowlands: The distribution of surnames in Wales
  • Dr Peder Gammeltoft: What is a name to a Viking?
  • Dr Chris Lewis: English places named after saints: why so few?
  • Dr John Freeman: Place-names and field names in Welsh Herefordshire
  • Dr Margaret Gelling: The Cambridge Dictionary

Monday 4 April

  • Dr George Redmonds: Unofficial names
  • Dr Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich: Place-names in County Wexford – Irish place-names in an English coat and English place-names in many coats
  • Dr Jonathan Roper: Personal and place names in English verbal charms
  • Coach excursion led by Professor Prys Morgan to the Tywi Valley, Carmarthenshire, including Llanarthne, Castell Dryslwyn, Aberglasne, Castell Dinefwr and Plas Dinefwr (National Trust)
  • Dr John Insley: Septimania: Romans, Goths and Franks
conference members on their way to Castell Dinefwr