Writing as Islandman, George Mackay Brown describes for us this time of year and a tale of old times. Autumn comes, and then winter. Poised between the steady scent-laden warm-breathed glow of […]
When ‘summer clasps hands with winter’
The Greatest Viking, The Life of Olav Haraldsson by Desmond Seward.
The Greatest Viking will be the final book published by renowned historian Desmond Seward following his death in Spring 2022.
There’s Runes….And There’s Runes
The next – FREE – on-line seminar, entitled ‘A great show-off: Carving as an expression of self in the runic inscriptions of Maeshowe’ will be on Friday April the 29th, when Dr Karen Langsholt Holmqvist will present her research on medieval runic graffiti.
What drove the Norse out of Greenland?
The research team spent 3 years gathering sediment samples from a lake called Lake 578. There were Norse settlements close to this lake.
When A Broch Becomes A Ting
“Some of the mounds produced by Iron Age Brochs provided conveniently elevated sites for these gatherings of the Norsemen, and became Tings.”
Svein Asleifarsson – Orkney’s Last Sea Wolf
Described in the Saga as: ‘the greatest man the western world has ever seen in ancient and modern times’- this is part of his story.
Archaeologists Return To Rousay For Skaill Excavation
The dig runs on weekdays from July 5 until July 16. Visitors are welcome to visit the dig between 10am and 4pm.
‘Hidden in Plain Sight’ Norse Women Textile Producers
The viking grave at Gurness, Mainland, Orkney located where it is now perched perilously close to the edge of the coastline is, remarks Christina Lee, a special link between the old and the new – between the sea and the land.
The Lewis Chess Set: #OnThisDay
On 11th of April 1831, the Lewis Chess Pieces, were put on public display at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, shortly after their rediscovery in a sand bank on the island of Lewis.
T’ings at Tingwall!
“We went to Tingwall, to take a picture of – The Ting”
