Background
Grigory Vladimirovich Bondarenko is Assistant Editor of eDIL project, devoted to the digitisation of the Dictionary of the Irish Language. He completed his PhD thesis (Early Irish literature and Medieval Studies) devoted to the mythological perception of space in Early Irish literature in 2001 in Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

Earlier, he completed an MPhil dissertation in Celtic Studies at the University of Oxford, in 1999, on the concept of the sacred landscape in the Dindshenchas. Before this appointment he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Institute for General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is member of the Editorial Board of Odysseus, the yearly almanac of social history and historical anthropology (Moscow).

Books and Recent Articles Authored:['06] 'King in Exile in Airne Fíngein ('Fíngen's Vigil'): Power and Pursuit in Early Irish Literature' (forthcoming), in Études celtiques (2006).

['06] 'Hiberno-Rossica: 'knowledge in the clouds' in Old Irish and Old Russian' (in English), in Studia Celto-Slavica I: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Links and Parallels between Celtic and Slavic Traditions, ed. S. Mac Mathúna and M. Fomin (Coleraine, 2006), pp. 185-201.

['06] 'Muirchú moccu Machtheni: the Beginning of Hagiography in Early Christian Ireland', in Odysseus (Moscow, 2006) (in Russian), 15pp.

['03] Mythology of space in Early Irish literature (Moscow, Yazyki slavyanskoy kul'tury, 2003) (in Russian), 416pp.

Grigory Bondarenko's research focuses on the concept of the sacred landscape in the dindshenchas. His monograph Mythology of space in Early Irish literature is devoted to a mythological perception of space in Early Ireland and includes relevant comparanda from Indian sources. Dr Bondarenko has shown particular similarities between Early Irish and Indian world-view with regard to special sacred features of landscape and discussed the problems of transition between pre-written and written type of memory in early mediaeval Ireland.