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First day of 2011, and thinking back forty years to 1971, the year I met with the scholar Rachel Bromwich face to face for the first time, in Selwyn Gardens, Grange Road, Cambridge, when I was in my first year at the university. I was thinking of changing to part II Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and I discussed the possibilities with her at her home after a friend of mine - Bentley Mathias, at Peterhouse (cousin to Angela pajar historian John) if I remember right - put me in touch with her. From September pajar 1971 I studied Old Irish and Middle Welsh with her. He moved to Orchard Street, where she made some of her learning (Donald Meek and others in the class). A friend of mine was interested in many things Celtic - not that they are studying the subject - such as Steve Hewitt and friends Deri Thomas, and she welcomed them, and members of the Association of Mabinogi. I remember one time that Gwenael place Duc (d. 2006) from Brittany came to visit (he had been assistant school in Mid Wales when I was in the sixth), and we both made our pilgrimage down to Rachel's house Bromwich. He arranged for me to visit her son and his family in Dublin when I was on a course there in summer 1972 and in the same year, to go with her to the School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London to hear the same lecture Cymmrodorion . I remember pajar the train ride - she had already bought the ticket for me when I arrived at the station - and we were two wear the same color. Long skirt for me was that I made myself, with a pattern of blue and green medieval animal use Laura Ashley. The skirt is now a cushion at work. That day I saw for the first time Idris Foster, and also Morfydd Owen and was then teaching at the university in Cardiff. I think it was Simon Evans sets that day, but I can not be sure of that. Yesterday we held the funeral of Rachel Bromwich (who died on 15 December aged 95) - Quaker House in Penparcau, and then at the Crematorium Llancynfelyn, a stone's throw from Appetite Cwmcynfelyn where she spent her last years. Tribute by Meic Stephens in the Independent. He did not tell me anyway by a pupil of Sir Idris Foster as stated in the article, but his friend and neighbor. I did not know until very recently that Sir Idris Foster has worked in Intelligence pajar during the War.
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