Norse and Viking Ramblings

A recent ramble took me further north than I had ever been before, to the Lofoten Islands. We were staying at the splendid  Nyvågar Rorbu...

The work of the Kirkwall draper, conchologist and poet Robert Rendall (1898-1967) may not be to everyone's taste - the poetry is tradi...

Here I am back in the Orcades on another busman's holiday. Next week it will be all business (though very pleasurable business, of co...

It's nearly the end of the cross-country skiing season. I used to indulge in this wonderful sport but lack of time, snow and other thin...

Today's Guardian review of BBC 1's Shetland , based on Ann Cleeves' Red Bones , concludes that 'Sometimes ... a place is as...

©Trustees of the British Museum As was recently pointed out on Twitter by Dave Gray , star presenter of Radio Orkney , 'Folk under t...

Most Vikingologists will already be aware of the small metal figurine (apparently it's silver) found by a detectorist last year on the ...