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Runic mugs with the inscription 'Orkney'. Seen in a tourist shop in Kirkwall.

Socks with runic pattern, seen in a tourist shop in Kirkwall

Information board outside the Norse St Magnus Church on Egilsay, Orkney.

St Magnus Church, founded at the site of the killing of Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney by an axe-blow to the head in ca. 1116 at the orders of his cousin Hákon Pálsson. This episode, referred to in Orkneyinga saga, is possibly corroborated…

A poster produced by ECRs on the Orkney Viking Heritage Project, demonstrating the language of Viking Age Orkney through the Lord's Prayer.

Readings of skaldic verse produced for the Orkney Project. Orri Tomasson reads the Old Norse, and David Baker reads the translations of the following poems:

1. Earl Rögnvaldr Kali Kolsson, a Lausavísur from Orkneyinga saga, ch 58 in which he…

The banners were created by the ECRs Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Tom Birkett, Brittany Schorn and Marjolein Stern using images and material collected by PhD participants during the Field School in Orkney.

They were designed and produced by…

A poster created by ECRs on the Orkney Viking Heritage Project. Designed and produced by Annelies Stern.