The Purpose of This Blog

Like most of you who come across this blog, I enjoy reading on the Celts, both their ancient and modern history.  Like most you, I'm also a critical reader, so I thought I would start this blog to share my critiques of books, articles and visual media I read or observe on Celtic history, culture or language.  I'm of Welsh descent, so my choices in these materials are bound to lean that way.  I'm certainly open to having others contribute to this blog as long as you follow my basic outline and structure (if you're interested, please contact me). My hope is that in time this blog will become a resource for people looking for good sources of information on Celtic peoples of the past and present.  I also hope this blog will become a discussion forum.  I welcome comments from readers, and as long as they are thoughtful and respectful, I welcome discordant views as well.

You might be asking yourself what this Gwlad yr Haf is.  In Welsh, it's two things.  One, it's the name of Celtic Other World.  The name seemed à propos because a little like old Celtic heroes, I will be tilting windmills periodically with some pretty impressive foes in the world of Celtic scholarship (and after all, I'm a "lowly community college professor...").  Gwlad yr Haf is also the Welsh translation of Somerset in England.  Fear not, unless it has to do with Celtic history or culture, I won't be writing on Somerset, England even though it's a lovely place.

For more about me, feel free to click through to my profile where you will also find a link to my professional website where you can read more about me, my credentials and my work.  I hope to post one blog a month.  I enjoy reading and watching film, and I do a lot of it, but not only about the Celts!  And, of course, I do a lot of reading for my work, so sometimes, it may take me longer to post new entries.

Finally, I've decided to monetize this blog, not to get rich (which seems patently unlikely), but primarily to give easy access to the books and other materials I'm writing about when available.

All that said, croeso mawr a chynnes i (a warm welcome to) "Notes from Gwlad yr Haf"