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Judith Jesch
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Emeritus Professor of Viking Studies @UoNEnglish.bsky.social. Visiting Professor @insuhi.bsky.social, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ See https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands .. more

Judith Jesch is a British scholar of Old Norse language and literature, runology, and the Viking Age. She was Professor of Viking Age Studies at the University of Nottingham until 2025. Jesch is chair of the international Runic Advisory Group and president of the English Place-Name Society. .. more

History 45%
Communication & Media Studies 18%

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There's a lot of commentary on the Epstein files, to say the least, but this, by @mattcarr.substack.com, is well worth your time: mattcarr.substack.com/p/the-damp-s...
Epsteinland
When Patriarchy Meets Oligarchy
mattcarr.substack.com

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It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฆ‰

#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026

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A Great aak for #SuperSeabirdSunday
Our brothers of the Arctic on Fowl Craig, one fine summer.

#Papay
#Orkney

#StandingStoneSunday I'm in #Lewis #Leรฒdhas and it's littered with megaliths, both standing and 'resting'. How to choose? So here's a nice gate I saw at #Callanish #Calanais interpreting the raising of the stones.

How cute, a mini-gate!
Gate topped stilin' wonders ๐Ÿฅฐ
Stone step stile with mini gate near Ullswater
An iconic specimen from the #StileArchive for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

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Gate topped stilin' wonders ๐Ÿฅฐ
Stone step stile with mini gate near Ullswater
An iconic specimen from the #StileArchive for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Stile with added standing stones. #Lewis #Callanish #Calanais

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North Ronaldsay's sheep are renowned for their unusual diet of seaweedโ€”but their eating habits aren't a new phenomenon ๐Ÿ

By analysing over 100 Neolithic sheep teeth, archaeologists have shown that sheep in Orkney were grazing on seaweed over 4,500 years ago: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...

โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
University is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.

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A Neolithic winter.

The Knap O'Howar on a snowy Papay day in January.

A fastness in time, caught.

#Papay #neolithic #archaeology #orkney

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Today is #NationalSweaterDay so let's enjoy 'The Fair-Isle Jumper' painted by #Orkney-born artist Stanley Cursiter in 1923.

Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976) was Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland from 1930-1948 and was appointed the King's Painter and Limner in Scotland.

I didn't see one, though there is a farmyard not far away with the usual stuff...

Stile with added chesspiece. #Lewis

I had to laugh at the idea of Mr Boneless having a 'royal palace'.

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Some incredible claims being made here. The location of Laithlind as Cumbria speculative, mound is most probably *not* the burial location of Ivarr the Boneless, very doubtful this was the location of palace, have yet to see convincing evidence of ship burial. Worrying hyperbole. #medievalsky

I'm at Cnip right now - plenty of rabbit holes, but I don't know the history of its discovery...
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removedโ€ฆ

โ€ฆperhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

The fireplace is excellentissimo but I was really thinking about the โ›ธ๏ธ

Living the life...
Sรธndag....efter en tur pรฅ skรธjter

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Sรธndag....efter en tur pรฅ skรธjter

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Kennings alive and well in Norway.
A view from a trip on the ice earlier today. The photograph is taken in a small crevice which is now called Buskebjรธnneskรธra, which means "squirrel's cleft", since squirrels come here to eat hazel nuts. (Buskebjรธnn, "bush-bear", is a nickname for squirrels, the ordinary word is "ekorn" or "ikorn".)

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A view from a trip on the ice earlier today. The photograph is taken in a small crevice which is now called Buskebjรธnneskรธra, which means "squirrel's cleft", since squirrels come here to eat hazel nuts. (Buskebjรธnn, "bush-bear", is a nickname for squirrels, the ordinary word is "ekorn" or "ikorn".)

Well done, and good luck with the viva!

Lucky you!

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Read @thinkuhi.bsky.social UHI PhD candidate Tara Athanasiou recent article in the Journal of Medieval History published by Taylor & Francis reviewing UHI INS Visiting Professor Judith Jesch book 'The Saga of the Earls of Orkney'.

tinyurl.com/322u762z
Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...
Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk

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The beautiful galley goes up in flames following the torchlit procession #uphellyaa