Daily Medieval

Legend says that St. Patrick arrived in Ardagh c.434 and created a Christian settlement over which he put his nephew, Mel of Ardagh , in cha...

St. Patrick had sisters. One of them was discussed yesterday, Derarca , called the "mother of saints" because she had so many chil...

Whether Brigid of Kildare was an early Irish saint or a pre-Christian goddess , her legend says that her mother was a slave baptized by St....

It is not unusual for Christian symbols of the cross to have variation. We all recognize the two straight lines perpendicular to each other,...

When the King of Leinster, Crimthann Mac Énnai (died 483) told his vassal Dubhthach to free a young girl from slavery, he knew she was spec...

Christianity came to Britain early. Tertullian and Origen, writing in the early 3rd century, mention Christian figures there. What is now Ch...

Marie de France (c.1160 - 1215) is called that because of one line from her writing: "Marie ai num, si sui de France." It means ...

History is written by the victors, or so it is said, and I was warned in graduate school always to question an author's intent. Everyone...

One of the oldest roadways in Northern Europe is the Sweet Track, of crossed wooden poles driven into waterlogged ground to support oak plan...

The first of February is the date of the Irish quarter-year festival called Imbolc. Imbolc is Old Irish for "in the belly"; it ...

Today is an important day in Sweden : Anna's Day, celebrating all people named Anna. It is also the traditional day to start preparati...

Anti-Irish sentiment has a long heritage. In the Middle Ages, Ireland was a target of Western Europe disdain for at least two reasons. 1...