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Steatite Basin on display in Shetland Museum and Archives

Steatite (or Soapstone) basin. These were often imported from Norway and Sweden in the Viking Age. Dunrossness. Donated by Hugh Crawford, Richmond,…

Handled Cup on display in Shetland Museum and Archives

Stone cup from Yell. Donated by Robert Tulloch, Lerwick. ARC 7540.

Hanging Lamp on display in Shetland Museum

Hanging lamp, made from stone and of a type known throughout the early medieval world. Unknown parish. Donated by Lerwick Town Council.

The Vikings in Scotland and Ireland in the Ninth Century

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
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Kirkjuvagr Orkney Gin

Kirkjuvagr Orkney Gin is a new product due to be launched in August 2016 and produced by Orkney Distilling Limited. It is branded using the Old Norse…

Thing Sites: Discover the Viking Cradle of Democracy

The Thing Project is a project dedicated to promoting tourism by engaging with the various thing sites in northern Europe.

The Old Norse word þing,…

Blog post: The Kilmorie Cross

Discussion and photographs of the Viking Age cross at Kirkcolm in the Rhinns of Galloway. The cross is Christian but features a figure identified as…

Princes Street Gardens Runestone

This Swedish runestone (U 1173) was brought to Edinburgh in the 18th century.

Highland Park - Svein Whisky

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…

Orkney Viking Fridge Magnet Photographed in the Orkney Museum

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

Plaque indicating location of St Olaf's Kirk in Kirkwall

This plaque in Orkney indicates the location of St Olaf's Kirk in Kirkwall, from which Kirkwall may derive it's name.

Sign for Egilsay in the Orkneys

Egilsay is famous as the site of the martyrdom of St Magnus, and for the church that still stands on the site, with its unusual round tower. Egilsay…

Runic Pins from Orkney

Runic pins reading 'Orkney', on sale in a tourist shop in Kirkwall.