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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks! I’m now in the process of writing a patch and getting close to a solution. Almost there!

CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update to the previous announcement. The server limitation is apparently set in stone, making it currently impossible for the site to be fully operational. Workarounds are being explored but sadly, I don’t see an easy fix anytime soon.

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(2/2) without me being notified, it looks like a wall-clock resource cap silently terminates anything that goes over an hour, leaving the database in an inconsistent state – and users potentially wondering why their queries don’t quite work. Please bear with me while a solution is being pursued.

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(1/2) I’m sorry to announce CODECS will be unavailable while server problems continue. We may be in a spot of bother with the (new?) limitations of our hosting plan. Some essential maintenance scripts require a generous amount of time to complete, but ...

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Ah yes, having been through the occasional trial and error myself, I can think of a few reasons why that might happen. This issue though is something relating specifically to a type of string matching, which may require a long-running maintenance script to get back into shape again.

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

2/2 - ... and the site will not be fully functional until it has finished doing so, or so I hope. Apologies for the temporary inconvenience!

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

1/2 - Small notification. It was found that certain (SMW) query results started to become incomplete. A maintenance script is now running to rebuild the full-text search index. This might take a while as it needs to plough through an estimated 3 million table rows

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

There's a bit of discussion about this (and only briefly about the strengths of the alternative derivation from 'pinguis') in Katrin Thier's article 'Of Picts and Penguins' in publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/fr... (2007)

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thanks, that does seem like a possible scenario at least. On the other hand, Ben Guy, in the article you referred to, had apparently noticed the same and attributes it to an error in the digitised version. Oh well, I'll just send an email to NLW.

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Not at all, two solid case studies of how two Breton centres could present themselves. Honoured to have had you on as a speaker!

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Edit: I meant to write f. 34, not f. 35

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

why does the Vita Elgari start on f. 35, in the middle of the Vita Samsoni? Is it due to a recent binding error, or a 'digital' one? (P.S. Not trying to be churlish here about the monumental work being done at @librarywales.bsky.social)

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Niche question for Welsh medievalists. While testing the prototype of a new TOC creator that links our data to IIIF resources, using the daunting Liber Landavensis as an example, I quickly got confused. The mystery of the absent f. 56v was easily solved (it's mislabelled) but ...

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I actually came across this one this week while adding a few basic entries, including one about this ‘third’ life, to our catalogue. Looking forward to your talk tomorrow!

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It me! (in Dutch) Keltisch Colloquium, 15 maart, Utrecht (meer info na de klik) stichting.vanhamel.nl/Nieuws:Kelti...

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Keltisch Colloquium 2026 – Stichting A. G. van Hamel voor Keltische Studies

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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Please join us for the conversation and celebration! Learn more about the volume here: brill.com/display/titl... Thanks to CSANA; to Catherine, John @jdmccafferty.bsky.social, and Máire; to Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social; BC Irish Studies @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social and all the contributors!

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Good news. There was a bit of downtime on Friday, but the upgrade previously announced should be ready and there is a brief report to go with that - codecs.vanhamel.nl/Show:CODECS/...

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Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Mae ‘Dwned’, cylchgrawn llên a llawysgrifau Cymru hyd 1800, ar gael ar lein (yn cynnwys y rhifynnau gwreiddiol print) 📚 ‘Dwned’, a journal about the literature and manuscripts of Wales up to 1800, is available online (including the original print issues) 📚

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CYLCHGRAWN LLÊN A LLAWYSGRIFAU CYMRU HYD 1800

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A little announcement to start the year: over the next few days all sites of the Van Hamel Foundation (CODECS included) will go offline for an upgrade and unless anything unforeseen happens, should be back up within a week or so.

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

... who may be putting their heads in the sand while still alive.

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

heads directly downward, because they hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise again; in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at their resurrection, be found ready standing on their feet."

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

No mention of blood-sucking though (AFAICS) but still appropriate given that Finn "buried him with his head downwards (lest he might effect a resurrection)". In light of other versions where Ábhartach is identified as a dwarf, it's reminiscent of Swift's Lilliputians who "bury their dead with their

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Nog twee weken en dan zijn er nieuwe Van Hamel-lezingen (toegang gratis): stichting.vanhamel.nl/Nieuws:VHL2025 @celticuu.bsky.social @oudgermanisten.bsky.social @anotheraspirin.bsky.social @svenmeeder.bsky.social

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Pleasantly surprised to see this on a #MediaWiki conference: on #MUDCon, Florian Thiery just presented a great rundown of study cases involving the use of #Wikibase software to record archaeological objects and sites, including Ogham stones, Irish holy wells and even Govan stones

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

3/3 - it was very timely of @ria.ie to feature this MS as their 'manuscript of the week' - bsky.app/profile/ria.... . Digital images are available from @dias-isos.bsky.social and I hope those of Egerton 1782 in the @britishlibrary.bsky.social will be up (again) in the near future.

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

2/3 - The source documents used here and presented together for convenience are from our TEI XML workbench (codecs.vanhamel.nl/Show:TEI). Many thanks to John Carey and the editors of Ériu for allowing me to publish a transcription of the fragment in the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum. On which note...

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CODECS @codecs.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

1/3 - Just in time for #Samhain night: a parallel text of two editions of the otherworldly Ulster Cycle tale of Echtra Nerai ‘Nera’s adventure’, along with Kuno Meyer’s (admittedly antiquated) translation into English : codecs.vanhamel.nl/Source:TEI/E...

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Before you proceed • CODECS: Online Database and e-Resources for Celtic Studies

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Friends, while we were caught in the whirlwind of the announcement that our Faculty intends to close our programme, we have been quiet here. In part, because we have no words to express our shock and sadness, in part also because we wanted to think about the best way forward. 1/2

A white dragon curling itself protectively around a red square while smoke is coming out of its nostrils.

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