Hi folks, do give @uoncsva.bsky.social a follow - they've just joined. #Vikings #OldNorse #runology
20.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Hi folks, do give @uoncsva.bsky.social a follow - they've just joined. #Vikings #OldNorse #runology
20.02.2026 12:42 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
📢 Call for Book Chapters for our Book Series Old Norse Studies
Networks in Old Norse Literature: Methods, Models, and New Directions, edited by @liamh2os.bsky.social and Erika Dell’Aquila
Abstracts (300–400 words) due 1 May 2026
Full papers due 1 December
More here: shorturl.at/wbnEe
An incredibly interesting day and a pleasure to be a part of!
12.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI
📜Theme: All Kinds of People
📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026
🏫Host: University of Nottingham
⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026
📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
Interesting project about house names by Ragnhild Ljosland being discussed on Around #Orkney this morning! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
05.02.2026 11:56 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Looking to be a super interesting day!
03.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read @thinkuhi.bsky.social UHI PhD candidate Tara Athanasiou recent article in the Journal of Medieval History published by Taylor & Francis reviewing UHI INS Visiting Professor Judith Jesch book 'The Saga of the Earls of Orkney'.
tinyurl.com/322u762z
Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky
22.01.2026 10:54 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Apardjón is pleased to present its newest special volume, Connections and the Church in Late Norse Scotland, edited by Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax. We would like to thank all authors for contributing, and Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax for their work. #MedievalSky
www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/researc...
One of the reasons I’ve done this is because there’s almost no actual runology on Substack, only nonsense magic-centred ‘information’ about runes… let’s hope I can change that!
11.01.2026 13:07 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited that all the articles from the 2024 International Congress of Onomastic Sciences have now been published open access as Volumes 16-20 of Onomastica Uralica! All 84 articles can be accessed here mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/onomural/kot...
05.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited that all the articles from the 2024 International Congress of Onomastic Sciences have now been published open access as Volumes 16-20 of Onomastica Uralica! All 84 articles can be accessed here mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/onomural/kot...
05.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I've done a few podcasts recently and particularly enjoyed this one with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-saga-of-...
21.12.2025 15:52 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Me in a PhD hat
Some news - I've graduated! 🥳
Bonus news - you can now read my thesis here: 📖
eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/82711/
Thank you! Looking forward to your series too - hopefully not a clash
03.12.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to a rather busy Leeds! Delighted by the set of panels organised with @jakestattel.bsky.social!
@imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC26
Special thanks to @jakestattel.bsky.social and @em-ehx.bsky.social for organising a highly engaging series of panels!
30.11.2025 23:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
November and December is a busy month for seminars @thinkuhi.bsky.social On Thursday 27th November 2025 at 7pm, Tom Fairfax discusses 'Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of the Orkneyinga Saga' in our free online Public Seminar Series.
tinyurl.com/yc5ave7f
We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Lovely to give a talk at Southwell Women’s Institute with @jaztherunologist.bsky.social and Francesca Squitieri on Women in the Viking Age. A very kind and enthusiastic audience!
21.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
King’s Cross Point burial mound and fort, Holy Isle in background
13.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Giants’ Graves
13.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Goatfell, Arran
13.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It might just be about some islands to the north of Scotland on 9th December!
30.09.2025 16:05 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to share a call for papers for our PGR/ECR research showcase on Life and Landscape. The showcase is a fantastic opportunity to share environmental research with both the academic community and the wider public. Please share widely!
01.10.2025 10:20 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share a Call for Papers for our Postgraduate and ECR Research Showcase next June! Please share widely, submit abstracts and watch this space for more information for attendees!
01.10.2025 14:11 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to share a call for papers for our PGR/ECR research showcase on Life and Landscape. The showcase is a fantastic opportunity to share environmental research with both the academic community and the wider public. Please share widely!
01.10.2025 10:20 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Only two months to go until this vsnr.org/2025/09/01/w... See you there?
21.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0