In this episode (in English), Thyra van Veen interviews fellow alumni of Celtic Studies at Utrecht University, Britt van Asselt and Pierre Faure. Britt and Pierre recently completed their master’s research, focusing on Early Ireland and Middle Breton respectively. Here, they discuss their experience of researching for their final thesis project, including the research process, the challenges involved and their findings.

Content note: This episode includes some reference to violence against women (41:00-42:00).

This episode was recorded in February 2022.

Host: Thyra van Veen

Guests: Britt van Asselt and Pierre Faure

Language: English

Music: “Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy” by Sláinte, CC BY-SA 3.0 US (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/), available from freemusicarchive.org. 

Links to initiatives, organisations and people mentioned in the episode:

Master’s Programme in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Utrecht University

FileMaker 

Aaron Griffith’s Milan Glosses Database

Python

Utrecht University Theses Repository

Britt van Asselt’s master’s thesis - Privacy in Early Ireland: An Overview and Analysis of Occurrences of Privacy in the Táin Bó Cúailnge and Early Irish laws 

Pierre Faure’s master’s thesis - The initial mutation of Old French v-initial loanwords in Middle Breton: a corpus study