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

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

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

5/8

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

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

4/8

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

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

When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472

NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future

1/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #Norse

@ancientorigins
Spoiler: It's completely NATURAL.
Sandstone just does that all on its own.
If you still have any weird-woowoo-von-Däniken-esque doubts about this then visit Orkney where you'll see this stuff ALL OVER PLACE, much of it no longer underwater so you can actually look at it up close and touch it.
It's just what rocks do.
#geology #woowoo #Japan #Orkney #science #archaeology #NotArchaeology
:-)

Remember, man, that thou art dust.

The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.

A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea.

And the boy that holds cinders for the priest,
His forehead is smeared,
Who wears a coat of fourteen Aprils…

—George Mackay Brown, “Ash Wednesday”
Published in TRAVELLERS (John Murray, 2013)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #religion #GeorgeMackayBrown #Orkney #AshWednesday

Remember, man, that thou art dust.

The earl kneels, the ash of the end is written on his brow.

A captain of ships kneels, to be put in mind of a death in a far port, or at home, or on a rock of the sea.

And the boy that holds cinders for the priest,
His forehead is smeared,
Who wears a coat of fourteen Aprils…

—George Mackay Brown, “Ash Wednesday”
Published in TRAVELLERS (John Murray, 2013)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #religion #GeorgeMackayBrown #Orkney #AshWednesday