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  1. Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
    26 February, free online

    Prof Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”

    uhi.ac.uk/en/research-enterpri

    #Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse

  2. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/no

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #Norse

  3. Du gies hooseroom tae a swap o scarfs,
    lodgins ta mallies. A shjalder swanks
    apo dy shooder…

    —Christine De Luca, “Growin Auld (Wasterwick)”
    published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES (Shetland Library, 1997)

    christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wa

    #Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland #Shetlandic #Scots #Scotslanguage

  4. “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

    @bookstodon

    strangehorizons.com/non-fictio

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry

  5. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/th

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry

  6. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/th

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic

  7. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/pe

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #film #cinema

  8. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/no

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #saga #OrkneyingaSaga #medieval #Viking

  9. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/au

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic

  10. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/a-

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic

  11. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/no

    #Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic

  12. Shaetlan Voice in Exile #Community #heritage #Research #Shaetlan #Shetlandic #Video #gàidhlig @gaidhlig guthan.wordpress.com/2024/06/1 Le Gordon Wells Select any video clip in this landscape format, or use the phone-friendly portrait layout. Shetlander Christie Williamson is the focus of this third “poets in exile” collection in our experimental extension of the Island Voices “capture and curation” model into new contexts and languages. This follows on

  13. 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

    thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/iss

  14. My latest #Shetlandic discovery from my friend on #Shetland: Dallamist, fog which hangs in the valleys.

    Dal would presumably be direct from #norn, meaning valley.

  15. My latest discovery in pursuit of my #Norn is not completely dead theory: #Shetlandic for autumn is hairst: cf Norwegian høst. Is this used anywhere else in Scotland?