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Category: Students
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Research Sheds New Light on Viking Sea Communications in 12th Century North West Scotland
A team of archaeologists from the University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland’s west coast. The research forms part of the ongoing Norse and the Sea project, which,…
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PhDing, Ballading and January Living in the Faroe Islands: Sjúrðar kvæði deluxe edition
An update from Institute for Northern Studies PhD student Anthony Olsson. At the beginning of my PhD in Faroese poetry and literature, I joked to a friend ‘you’ll find me somewhere windy and expensive in the North Atlantic’. True to form, off I flew to Tórshavn at the beginning of…
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‘Views in Orkney and on the North Eastern Coast of Scotland’ by Countess Duchess of Sutherland (Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, 1765-1839)
Many people will be familiar with the significant part Countess Duchess of Sutherland, the Marchioness of Stafford, had to play in the Highland Clearances. It is not so widely known that she was a visual artist of some skill.
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Can we make tourists love the intangible?
A look at the state of Orkney’s tourism market
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Scapa 100 – Lost futures and hidden pasts: the journey to Peace-Land
Scapa 100 was the commemoration of the end of the First World War – in Orkney
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Why is it (almost) never ogham?
We know a lot about runic writing, but what about its predecessor, ogham?
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What about Orkney’s connectivity?
The digital world is bringing everyone closer together
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‘Islandness’ – a contributor to island sporting success?
Does ‘living on the edge’ give an advantage?
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Badges of Identity – women’s dress fittings in Viking Age Scotland
A look at some of the Viking-age graves across Scotland and Orkney