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Nadine Lee
An Ode to Scotland - Meeting a Modern-Day Scots Poet
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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
Learn to Speak Norn For Only £120
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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
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The Westford Knight
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What is claimed as a carving on a glacial boulder in the town of Westford, in Massachusetts, USA, is argued to be proof that an expedition, led by Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, landed on the North...
Topics: Earl of Orkney, Orkney, Roslin Castle, Rosslyn Chapel, Westford Knight