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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Auld rock meets Nordic Noir

“the idea of the ‘Nordic’ is constructed through the naming of the landscape rather than geography itself”

– Hanne Tange & Gunhild Agger turn a Danish gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/auld-rock-meets-nordic-noir-a-danish-gaze-on-shetlandic-scandinavian-ness/

#Scottish #literature #Shetland #Shetlandic #Norse

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Auld Rock meets Nordic Noir: A Danish Gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness - The Bottle Imp

The Scandinavian traveller arriving through Sumburgh is greeted in a homely way. On the road taking drivers out of the airport area stands a multilingual sign, which welcomes voyagers in the four languages of English, Norwegian, German and French. To the Scandinavian the sign is an oddity, signalling at once historical connectivity and geographical distance. […]
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

A Deep, Owld Anchor

“Even writing about Nicaragua or New York, Cuba or my adopted home of Glasgow, it is with Shetlandic eyes that I see the world, and with Shetlandic ears that I hear it”

—Christie Williamson on da wirds an wyes o spaekin in Shaetlan

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/a-deep-owld-anchor/

#Scottish #literature #Shetland #Shetlandic #Norse

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A Deep, Owld Anchor - The Bottle Imp

“What makes them Shetlandic?” I was asked recently by a senior member of the University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing department. I was outlining projects of mine to determine their compatibility or otherwise with one of their programs, and described the poems I aspired to make as Shetlandic. The best response I could find at the […]
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Auld rock meets Nordic Noir

“the idea of the ‘Nordic’ is constructed through the naming of the landscape rather than geography itself”

– Hanne Tange & Gunhild Agger turn a Danish gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness

3/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/auld-rock-meets-nordic-noir-a-danish-gaze-on-shetlandic-scandinavian-ness/

#Scottish #literature #Shetland #Shetlandic #Norse

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Auld Rock meets Nordic Noir: A Danish Gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness - The Bottle Imp

The Scandinavian traveller arriving through Sumburgh is greeted in a homely way. On the road taking drivers out of the airport area stands a multilingual sign, which welcomes voyagers in the four languages of English, Norwegian, German and French. To the Scandinavian the sign is an oddity, signalling at once historical connectivity and geographical distance. […]
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Norse Past, Victorian Present

“Orkneyinga Saga… is at once a historical chronicle and a literary fantasy… Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment”

– Simon Hall addresses Orcadian readings of the 12th/13th-century Orkneyinga Saga

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/norse-past-victorian-present-orcadian-readings-of-orkneyinga-saga/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #medieval #saga #Viking #Norse

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Norse Past, Victorian Present: Orcadian readings of 'Orkneyinga Saga' - The Bottle Imp

I am privileged to work in a school in the village of Pierowall on the Orkney island of Westray, and my Monday morning commute is pretty spectacular. At Kirkwall airport, I board the little eight-seater Britten-Norman ‘Islander’ aircraft, and within a few moments we are in the air. Climbing westward from Grimsetter, the Islander veers […]
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent

“For Tait, making the bigger picture… didn’t mean compromising the poetry. For her, cinema itself was essentially a poetic medium”

– Sarah Neely on the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life & work

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/persistence-of-vision-blue-black-permanent-and-the-enduring-legacy-of-margaret-taits-life-and-work/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #filmmaking #cinema #20thcentury

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Persistence of Vision: 'Blue Black Permanent' and the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life and work - The Bottle Imp

This year marks the centenary of the Orcadian filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait, who was born on Armistice Day, November the 11th, 1918.  During her lifetime, Tait produced over thirty short films, self-published three volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, and became Scotland’s first female feature filmmaker with the release of Blue Black […]
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

The New Orkney Language Literature

Harry Josephine Giles looks at

“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”

& a literary rebirth

6/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

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The New Orkney Language Literature - The Bottle Imp

“Orkney Library and Archive, Kirkwall” by summonedbyfells is licensed under CC BY 2.0 For a small place, Orkney has produced an extraordinary literature. Simon W. Hall’s 2010 study, The History of Orkney Literature, which won the Saltire Society First Book Award that year, drew a magisterial line from the sagas through modernism to the contemporary […]
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