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Place-names, maps, languages. dgplacenames.wordpress.com
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November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Also, looks like I need to reproject to EPSG:4326 from EPSG:27700 (the Ordnance Survey CRS I've been using to get grid refs) rather than just exporting to 4326. Will attend to that after some more painting
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Mobile view still needs some work. Best to switch to desktop view if your browser allows it
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
@rhunedhel.bsky.social to top this video off, the description is a line of alliterative verse
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I'll add it to the list!
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Sounds like a good contact!
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
While I have you, have you come across Warth at the south west end of Cava before, or any reference to a beacon there?
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November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Cheers! Hoping it will be extra useful once I get some transcriptions done.
The main skillset for this has been the patience to argue with AI
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Spotted!
November 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by dgplacenames (now in Orkney)
Also in the current issue of Forgotten Ground Regained: four poems by @dgplacenames.bsky.social. The fourth one, "Hail in St. Mary's", is in modern Scots. It is an example of the Norse form, kviðuháttr .

alliteration.net/poetry/hail-in-st-marys/ #alliterative #poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity
Hail in St Mary’s, a poem in alliterative verse by Colin Mackenzy
The goose-gate’s / gairies loudly / skailt their scree, / scarrach-snell an / cranreuch bricht.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM