A bit surreal but I am honored to have been asked to be the Grand Marshall of the St Patrick's Day Parade in Oslo this year www.irishsociety.no/socials/dr-c...
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A bit surreal but I am honored to have been asked to be the Grand Marshall of the St Patrick's Day Parade in Oslo this year www.irishsociety.no/socials/dr-c...
Thurs 26 March, Prof. Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Memorial Lecture (in-person and online), on a topic close to Bannerman's own work: 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'.
Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More info 👇
hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...
Reminder to RSVP for the CSVA’s and LCCP’s collaborative seminar brought to you by Judith Jesch and Charlotte Eichler! Join us in the Senate Chamber at 5pm for some poetry and an evening drink!
Please RSVP here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/rsvp...
Even fewer Kalis mannanofn.arnastofnun.is/nafn/3419 I guess they all changed their name to Rögnvaldr mannanofn.arnastofnun.is/nafn/5020
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
New in Early Medieval Europe: what role did animals play in early medieval medicinal and well-being practices? A study by Holly Miller and Christina Lee (£)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Online lecture - free and open to all #medievalsky #archaeology www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
Image of the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age logo with the words We Are Back! beneath.
Welcome to the brand-new social media page for the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age! The longship has set sail for new shores as we have parted ways with X (Twitter) and are setting up camp here on Bluesky. Follow along for updates on upcoming events, new research, and all things Viking Age!
Hi folks, do give @uoncsva.bsky.social a follow - they've just joined. #Vikings #OldNorse #runology
A quick message to say that my Nottingham email has now stopped working. If you want to get in touch, please use my @northernstudies.bsky.social email: tom@ssns.org.uk
New book on pre-order - 'Royalty and Ritual: The Landscape of Power in Early Medieval Scotland and Europe' edited by Professor Alex Sanmark ( @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies), Dr Mark Hall, Professor Jane Geddes & Dr Oisin Plumb (UHI INS)
tinyurl.com/2w43wrt5
And if you still haven't had your fill of #Orkneyingasaga #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney (who has?), I'm doing a webinar on 4th March: www.mymagazinesub.co.uk/history-scot... (see also Niall Sharples on #Vikings in the #Hebrides on Thursday)
Do come along if you're in or near #Nottingham! Free to attend but do register using the link on this page: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...
Sheena and I will be on Radio Orkney this evening talking about the Fields of Time project
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net
Writing humorously about a brooch with runes on it
open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi...
Just one week until UHI Institute for Northern Studies Mapping Identities Conference hosted at UHI Perth and online 10/02/2026. Full programme now confirmed. Still time to register www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...
Just had a look - no mention of rabbits in the report - just bones protruding from the sand! Maybe uncredited rabbits had something to do with it...
Yep!
No it wasn't one of the ones I was looking at! Perhaps I'd need 3 nickels! 😂
Points for anyone who can name them! I'm sure this probably happens more often than people say but it is nice to see the rabbits acknowledged in both of these cases.
![If I had a nickel for every time [X], I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice (Dr. Doofenshmirtz)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7hyid4yvhrrwahcxg2bncuyk/bafkreigmjyhjf2jzlxohbwydftuix7koqgy7bxqdm6dhbw63473aj3plei)
If I had a nickel for every time [X], I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice (Dr. Doofenshmirtz)
Writing about a couple of archaeological finds and:
- Both are viking-related
- Both are in Scotland
- Both were found in the victorian era
And most importantly...
- Both are attributed to rabbits
One of those 'If I had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have two nickels' moments.
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Every conversation sparked by sharing the video brings us closer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1cY...
Read @thinkuhi.bsky.social UHI PhD candidate Tara Athanasiou recent article in the Journal of Medieval History published by Taylor & Francis reviewing UHI INS Visiting Professor Judith Jesch book 'The Saga of the Earls of Orkney'.
tinyurl.com/322u762z
A crowd of costumed onlookers carrying torches set fire to a viking ship, sparks flying everywhere.
A viking ship being dragged through the streets of Lerwick by torch bearers.
A crowd of costumed onlookers surrounding a viking ship on fire, sparks flying everywhere.
A crowd of costumed onlookers surrounding a viking ship on fire.
Cold and rain be damned - glad to have seen Up Helly Aa up close this year!
New publication from myself, 'Haraldr Maddaðarson and Scoto-Orcadian Politics before 1222':
www.academia.edu/149771345/Ha...
Great article on "Haraldr Maddaðarson and Scoto-Orcadian Politics before 1222" combining source analysis with the wider context
The cult of Orkney's patron saint - St Magnus - in Caithness is the subject of a new paper by Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Dr James Moore in a special issue of the Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.
Very excited that all the articles from the 2024 International Congress of Onomastic Sciences have now been published open access as Volumes 16-20 of Onomastica Uralica! All 84 articles can be accessed here mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/onomural/kot...
Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky
Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky