Herbam quae Gallice... is a Gaulish plant knowledge database named after the common phrase uttered by Classical herbalists and other authors before introducing the Gaulish name of a plant, Marcellus Empiricus (a.k.a. Marcellus Burdigalensis “Marcellus of Bordeaux”) in particular, in his work De ...

The language of the ancient Gauls remains little-known to the general public, with only a modest amount of works available for a popular audience on the subject (virtually none of which can be found in English). So for an Anglophone enthusiast, knowledge of Gaulish can be hard to come by. Luckily, j...

The Coligny Calendar is a large, 2^nd Century bronze tablet that records the only known pre-Christian Celtic calendar. Its smashed remains were fatefully unearthed in 1897, in an unsuspecting field just North of Coligny, Ain. It did not take long for scholars to piece the artifact’s fragments toge...

• See Part 1 for an introduction to what prosody is and why it matters (11 min read-time).
• See Part 2 for an examination of the attested evidence of Celtic prosody (25 min read-time).
• See Part 3 for analysis of...