SNSBI: 2004 Cambridge meeting

SNSBI 2004 Cambridge meeting (Peterhouse, March 26–29)

The 2004 annual spring conference was organised by Dr Oliver Padel. The meeting is reported upon in Nomina 27, 127–128

welcome by Mr Ian Fraser (Edinburgh), President of the Society
Dr Rosemary Horrox (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge): Introduction to medieval Cambridge

Arthur Owen (Lincolnshire): Gates and gotes in east Lincolnshire: land drainage records as a source for name studies
Stella Pratt (University of Glasgow): The Anglo-Saxon element in Scottish topographical place-names
Dr Alan James (Derbyshire): Why Cymry and Cumbria?
Helen Watt and Jonathan Mackman: The E.179 Project: Lay Subsidies in the National Archives
Professor Joan Greatrex (Cambridge): Who were the monks of Ely?
Dr Meredith Cane (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): The Welsh adoption of Norman personal names
John Rowlands & Sheila Rowlands (Aberystwyth): From patronymics to settled surnames in Wales
Professor David Dumville (Girton College, Cambridge): The Northumbrian Liber Vitae: some historical and onomastic problems
Professor Patrick Sims-Williams (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): From Vobrix to Sabrina: objectivity and subjectivity in the identification of Continental Celtic place names
Dr Kay Muhr (Northern Ireland Place-Name Project, Queen's University, Belfast): Surnames from saints' names in Ireland and Scotland

visit to Sutton Hoo
Dr Paul Russell (Pembroke College, Cambridge): Cunedda, Briafael: fossilised phonology in Brittonic personal names
Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (St John's College, Cambridge): Lochlann, an Irish literary place name
Peter Kitson (University of Birmingham): Duvengael, a Strathclyde (?) figure in Arthurian romance

Peterhouse; Sutton Hoo.