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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

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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

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social ยท 12h
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
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social ยท 15h
It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl.
๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿฆ‰

#SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026
A naive representation of an owl on a small flat slate sheet. The body is depicted in alternating white and dark triangles. Crucially, this owl is not playing American Football.

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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social ยท 21h
A Great aak for #SuperSeabirdSunday
Our brothers of the Arctic on Fowl Craig, one fine summer.

#Papay
#Orkney

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 22h
#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.
Gate in a field with designs depicting the raising of standing stones.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 1d
How cute, a mini-gate!
lakesstiles.bsky.social Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social ยท 1d
Gate topped stilin' wonders ๐Ÿฅฐ
ceadela.bsky.social Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social ยท 1d
Stone step stile with mini gate near Ullswater
An iconic specimen from the #StileArchive for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social ยท 1d
Gate topped stilin' wonders ๐Ÿฅฐ
ceadela.bsky.social Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social ยท 1d
Stone step stile with mini gate near Ullswater
An iconic specimen from the #StileArchive for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 1d
Stile with added standing stones. #Lewis #Callanish #Calanais
Fence with stile in the foreground, behind it the stones of Callanish II, Isle of Lewis

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 2d
Sau fra #GreatBernera #Lewis #Skottland
A sheep in the foreground with a ruined building, a loch, a house and distant mountains in the background.

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Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social ยท 3d
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...
Photo of two sheep with brown wool walking on a sandy beach amongst seaweed

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 4d
โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social ยท 4d
University is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.

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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social ยท 4d
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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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social ยท 4d
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.
A painting of a woman wearing a Fair Isle knitted jumper, with a knitted hat, scarf and white gloves. She is looking towards the viewer.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 4d
I didn't see one, though there is a farmyard not far away with the usual stuff...

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 5d
Stile with added chesspiece. #Lewis
Large wooden version of a king from the Lewis chesspieces, with a stile in the background.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 5d
I had to laugh at the idea of Mr Boneless having a 'royal palace'.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social ยท 5d
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

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 5d
I'm at Cnip right now - plenty of rabbit holes, but I don't know the history of its discovery...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social ยท 6d
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.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 7d
The fireplace is excellentissimo but I was really thinking about the โ›ธ๏ธ

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 7d
Living the life...
handansken.bsky.social Lars S. Sรธrensen @handansken.bsky.social ยท 7d
Sรธndag....efter en tur pรฅ skรธjter

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Lars S. Sรธrensen @handansken.bsky.social ยท 7d
Sรธndag....efter en tur pรฅ skรธjter

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 10d
Kennings alive and well in Norway.
hopesteffen.bsky.social Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social ยท 10d
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".)
View of a frozen lake, photographed from a crevice in a rock wall. Along the right-hand side of the picture, one of the sides of the crevice runs like a jagged frame. In the foreground, a few individual rocks are peeking through the ice of the lake. The ice extends towards the lake's far shore, where a mountin rises against the pale blue and reddish-pink of the twilight sky. The black outline of the mountain and the colours of the sky are dimly mirrored in the ice.

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social ยท 10d
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".)
View of a frozen lake, photographed from a crevice in a rock wall. Along the right-hand side of the picture, one of the sides of the crevice runs like a jagged frame. In the foreground, a few individual rocks are peeking through the ice of the lake. The ice extends towards the lake's far shore, where a mountin rises against the pale blue and reddish-pink of the twilight sky. The black outline of the mountain and the colours of the sky are dimly mirrored in the ice.

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 11d
Well done, and good luck with the viva!

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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social ยท 11d
Lucky you!

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social ยท 11d
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

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social ยท 11d
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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Shetland News @shetnews.co.uk ยท 12d
The beautiful galley goes up in flames following the torchlit procession #uphellyaa