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Whithorn Priory and Museum in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, includes a small collection of Hiberno Norse Material from excavations at this important site.

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In addition to many streets bearing Norse names, some buildings also have Norse roots. This example of a house named 'Seagate' (or sea street) may reference a road that has changed its name.

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Svein, a good Viking name, is one of the Norse-themed brands of malt whisky from the Highland Park distillery. It is part of their Warrior series which also includes Harald and Ingvar. They also have a whisky named for Odin, and have had other…

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This is the entrance of Kirkwall Airport, Orkney. The placename Grimsetter is written in the runes "krimsitir" in the younger futhark. The new building was opened in 2002 and I have been told that M. P. Barnes advised on the correct use of the runes.

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Conservators have released images of the contents of a Carolingian cup that formed part of the Galloway Hoard.

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Hat in a souvenir shop in Lerwick, Shetland, featuring a Viking ship, and produced by Beechfield Original Headwear

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Carl Phelpstead (Cardiff University), ‘ Past and Present Identities in Margaret Elphinstone’ s Islanders’. Chaired by Dieuwke la Roi. Presentation at the IRC-Funded Conference ''Rediscovering the Vikings', UCC, 25 Nov. 2016.

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Postcard of the burning of the galley at Lerwick's Up Helly Aa. On the reverse there are runes which appear to read 'Viking Prints', though the alphabet used is the older futhark.

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Text of Donnchadh Ó Corráin's O'Donnell Lecture, delivered at the Taylorian Building, Oxford, on Ascension Day, 1997
Chronicon 2 (1998) 3: 1-45
ISSN 1393-5259

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A short essay about the Vikings with links to other resources.

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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…

Causeway looking towards Brough of Birsay, Orkney
Canmore is a database of heritage sites in Scotland that is compiled and maintained by Historic Environment Scotland. This link is a search for all Norse sites.

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A Norse settlement at Unst is recorded in Canmore. The website includes photographs of the site and some detail about it. Finds from the site include a Viking Age comb and axe.

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

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Official Website of the Up Helly Aa Festival in Shetland.

The Up Helly A' is a festival celebrated on the 24th day after Christmas in Shetland. The celebrations involve a parade of 1000 guizers led by a Jarl, and culminates in the burning of a…

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

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Small stylised Viking with sword, shield and horned helmet, with the inscription 'Orkney'. Photographed by Julie Cassidy in the Orkney Museum.

St Colmac's Church with Cnoc an Rath in the left middle ground
New research has identified a possible Viking thing (parliament) site on Bute in the Hebrides. It is suggested that Ketill flatnose may have been associated with it.
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