#orcadian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #orcadian, aggregated by home.social.
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When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #Norse
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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either… It is not just poetry about a science-fictional subject. It is poetry in which the poetry itself is science fiction.”
–Cat Fitzpatrick reviews DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for STRANGE HORIZONS
8/8
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry
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In 2019, Harry Josephie Giles’s SF verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published by Picador in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
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#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry
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The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at “the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force” & a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic
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Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent
“For Tait, making the bigger picture – making feature films, and working on a bigger scale – didn’t mean compromising the poetry. For her, cinema itself was essentially a poetic medium”
—Sarah Neely on the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life & work
5/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #film #cinema
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Norse Past, Victorian Present
“Orkneyinga Saga… is at once a historical chronicle and a literary fantasy. It is a Christian book of bloodshed that celebrates saints alongside murderers. Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment”
—Simon Hall addresses Orcadian readings of the 12th/13th-century Orkneyinga Saga
4/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #saga #OrkneyingaSaga #medieval #Viking
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Auld rock meets Nordic Noir
“the idea of the ‘Nordic’ is constructed through the naming of the landscape rather than geography itself”
—Hanne Tange & Gunhild Agger turn a Danish gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness
3/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic
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A Deep, Owld Anchor
“Even writing about Nicaragua or New York, Cuba or my adopted home of Glasgow, it is with Shetlandic eyes that I see the world, and with Shetlandic ears that I hear it”
—Christie Williamson on da wirds an wyes o spaekin in Shaetlan
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/a-deep-owld-anchor/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic
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When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, Orkney & Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
1/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic