#orcadian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #orcadian, aggregated by home.social.
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It didn’t feel like they were just doing a job – it felt more personal
A horrific accidental #injury prompted #Orcadian, Gavin Sutherland to be thankful to Scotland’s #Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA)
He thought nothing of having a lithium battery in his pocket as he went about his work in #Orkney.
- “I heard a hiss and slight movement in my pocket. Then it…"
#lithium #batteries #SCAA #Scotland #AirAmbulance #PeopleNotProfits #vape #Orkney #Healthcare #NonProfit
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Support for the Orcadian language is just one of the key areas of focus in the second Islands Plan published by the Scottish Government. Community Wealth Building – strengthening the local Orkney economy – is a central feature of the revised Plan.
“Islanders have told us clearly what they need to pursue their ambitions" - First Minister John Swinney https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/02/25/islanders-have-told-us-clearly-what-they-need-to-pursue-their-ambitions-first-minister-john-swinney/ #CommunityWealthBuilding, #IslandsPlan, #News, #Orcadian, #ScottishGovernment -
“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”
—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
7/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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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 #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent
“For Tait, making the bigger picture… 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 #Orcadian #filmmaking #cinema #20thcentury
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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
7/8
#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
2/8
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
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from @orkneylibrary
In 2021 The GMB Fellowship published Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums – a collection of poetry and prose in Orcadian dialect.
The Orkney Voices writing group have now recorded it as an audio collection. Listen to the first episode NOW at gousters.transistor.fm or wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧
https://gousters.transistor.fm
#Scottish #literature #poetry #shortfiction #Scots #Scotslanguage #Orcadian #Orkney #podcast
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After Christian I of Norway failed to pay the dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed to the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
#Scottish #literature #Vikings #Norse #Orcadian #Shetlandic #sciencefiction
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The Ring of Brodgar for #StandingStoneSunday.
We had the stones to ourselves as the sun slowly set, casting raking light across the stones. It's one of my favourite memories, it was so utterly beautiful and tranquil.
#BlackAndWhitePhotography #StandingStones #Orkneys #Scotland #NeolithicScotland #Neolithic #Orcadian