Sem víkingrinn á brúnni! / 🇳🇴 Nyland! Som vikingen på brua

Brissit brawnis and brokin banis, Stride, discord and waistie wanis. Crukit in eild syne halt withal, Thir are the bewties of the fute-ball. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bew...

"Ja, vi elsker dette landet, som det stiger frem..." 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 youtu.be/-lNYwq7cBww

'Gate into a field adjacent to Holland farm' (2005) 📷 by Dumgoyach www.geograph.org.uk/photo/286069

Just learned that in French <<faire des vagues>> 'to make waves', vague is from Old Norse vágr 'sea'

“In Scottish English, the colloquial phrase to take the crow road means to die or to be near death. This expression was originally popularized by Scottish author Iain Banks, who wrote the 1992 novel The Crow Road.” It wasn’t popularised by Iain Banks, it was invented www.oed.com/discover/new...

Auld Peedie Kirks

In honour of today, I have written a little blogpost. norseandviking.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

Spotted this freshly hoisted Norwegian flag just outside Kirkwall today

Love Tolkien? Love alliterative verse? The Summer issue of Forgotten Ground Regained will have both. 22 poems. 18 authors. All all-alliterative, all-Tolkien fan poetry. Coming July 24th!

Learned of the (unofficial) flag of Saint Pierre and Miquelon via yesterday's flagle.io

I Swona hold your hand Whole Flotta shakin goin on Papa just to dance with you I Holm the walrus Twist and Gloup She's leaving Glimps Holm

Every time I read “on Orkney”, “on South Ronaldsay”, “on Hoy” or on any other inhabited island I feel pain, pain for the community and heritage that are reduced to a slab you can slide off. You wouldn’t say on Great Britain would you?? In #Orkney, in Hoy etc surely. 1/2

So incredibly grateful for @nedboulting.bsky.social and team's For the Love of Cycling podcast. The ITV (and C4) coverage was the sound of my summers for as long as I can remember. It even has blink-and-you'll-miss-it deliberate flag orientation mistakes for vexillology fans.

Flag of Asturias Lots of these up the Col du Tourmalet

Well, ‘happy’ 13th birthday to this headline, I suppose, even though it doesn’t seem to have aged

Hoy Jude

Alan Bold's The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse is available from @archive.org. More poems by Mao (13) than MacDiarmid (7). No longer in print, which is no great surprise.

Yesnaby all my troubles seemed so far eday…

That’s nae a bonk, that’s a fence.

Not content with tanking the Tour de France, TNT strikes again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grief howling would be a cooler line imo "þrýtr ‘disappears’: So B. The verb þrjóta ‘disappear, dwindle’ (þrýtr 3rd pers. sg. pres. indic.) is used impersonally with harðan harm ‘the strong grief’ as the acc. object. Þýtr ‘howls, resounds, whistles’ (so A, W) makes no sense in the context."

@edent.tel Uploaded 3 photos. I have location turned on on my phone and the first image I uploaded located the bench accurately. Can you advise

The strong grief disappears in the white arms of Sólborg.

🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴

We’re back on site tomorrow to investigate an intriguing circular feature revealed by the Time Team ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey in July 2025.

Watching yesterday's TDF stage on francetv en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelada

6/15 lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

16/20

Lovely bit of Disambiguation here

“Read it now” —Ursula K. Le Guin Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT (1952) – a gem of classic #fantasy writing – has just been republished by Virago #BookWormSat #kidlit 💙📚 store.virago.co.uk/products/tra...

Flag of Extremadura at the Spain v Austria game

I got my own personal #runic welcome to The Georgian Hoose, #Kirkwall today.

Just had a quick look at the Toolkit - it's excellent www.nottingham.ac.uk/common/styli...

It’s my 36th ancient relic from each country in the #WorldCup. This is SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This is the extraordinary Hunterston Brooch, a Celtic-style silver brooch with gold and amber decoration. It was used to pin a cloak and is thought to have belonged to a king just prior to the Viking age. 🕰️c700 AD

🇨🇩 🇨🇩 🇨🇩 🇨🇩 🇨🇩 🇨🇩

The 75‑minute Time Team Special filmed during the final full season of excavation at the Ness of Brodgar in 2024 has its world premiere in Orkney on Friday, July 3.

Learning that Shaetlan has an object form of the 2nd person pronoun from AI slop on FB

Hadnae realised how auld 'a' (indef art) afore vowels wis in Scots dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd000...

Just need a title!

Hadrian’s Wall, painting by George Callaghan, Irish artist.

Although I see what I suspect is AI assisted writing every day, I've only queried the folk that post it on two occasions. One confirmed they used AI and carried on posting. The other denied it and shortly after deleted their account

Siberia's a scunner www.maptap.gg June 30 100🎯 95🏅 97🔥 80🌞 99🎯 Final score: 926

Different for me - no NURSE merger

“Variants of /r/ used in contemporary Scottish English: an exploratory study” by Dani Morse-Kopp (June ’26) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maula. A Norwegian verb meaning something like 'eating something so nice that it would almost be more appropriate to eat it together with something, but you just eat it on its own'. The verb is derrived from a noun meaning 'mouth'. It is what I did to these wild strawberreies.