Sign Up
Tartan Footprint helps you connect and share with Scottish people in your life.
Search Blogs...

Topic: Norse

Nadine Lee
An Ode to Scotland - Meeting a Modern-Day Scots Poet
by
Intertwined and impenetrably linked to Scottish culture, poetry has a long and distinguished history in Scotland. And it's a history that's continuing to this day – Edinburgh was recently named the wo...
Topics: edinburgh, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norse, Orkney, Poetry, Scots, Scots Renaissance, Scottish identity, Vikings
Nadine Lee
Ambassador Claims Vikings 'Brought Sarcasm to Britain'
by
Monty Python have a lot to thank the Vikings for according to the Danish Ambassador. For over two centuries, Vikings colonised, traded and raided their way through much of Britain before disappeari...
Topics: Danish ambassador, Denmark, Monty Python, Norse, viking
Nadine Lee
Learn to Speak Norn For Only £120
by
A dictionary of an extinct language spoken only in the remote Scottish Highlands has been uncovered in an English charity shop. The two-volume Norn Dictionary was anonymously donated to the Willow Bu...
Topics: language, norn, Norse, northern isles, Orkney, Shetland
  likes this.
Nadine Lee
From Norway with Love
by
The Nidelva River, with Nidaros Cathedral in the background. Trondheim, Norway. When asked to give the name of his nearest mainline rail station on a Parliamentary expenses questionnaire, former lib...
Topics: Gunn, Ian Rankin, MacDonald, MacLeod, MacLeod of Lewis, Norse, North Sea, Norway, Trondheim, Vikings