Odin's Eye Blog

Category: Orkney

• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Helping unravel the Earl’s poetry

  A look at some Norse poetry writing

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Cracking the place-name puzzle

  Many of Orkney’s place names are Norse

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney Shetland

  Masculine and feminine in dialect

  Does Orcadian dialect use a gender?

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Delving into the roots of Norse first names

  First names go through various fashions, but Norse names have always been popular in Orkney

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  The flip side o chantin

  Orcadian is a rich dialect

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  No end in sight for this peedie quest

  Peedie is used in Orcadian dialect a LOT

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  On the trail of the Raven Banner

  The holder of the Raven Banner was important, but ultimately doomed

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Ancient script in our modern times

  There’s more to runes than your jewellery

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Atmospheric conditions, apparitions and portents of doom

  There is a lot in Orkney’s lexicon that have multiple meanings

  3rd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Kirkwall – from Norse Thing site to council seat

  The transference of power from the past to the present

  3rd Feb 2022