Only two months to go until this vsnr.org/2025/09/01/w... See you there?

Congrats @tcfairfax.bsky.social 🎉🎉

I'm excited to announce that I'll be sharing some findings of my PhD research at an online talk for UHI's Institute for Northern Studies on November 27, titled 'Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of Orkneyinga saga'. Click the link below to register!

Final reminder! You have around 7 hours!

One more day to submit a proposal to our series of talks at @imc-leeds.bsky.social! #IMC2026 #Medievalists #Medievalsky #EarlyMedieval #VikingStudies

Hi everyone! @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2025 was a wonderful experience for me -- so I'd love to do it again! Here is a Call for Papers from Mary O'Connor and me, entitled Envisioning The Times: Writing the Past and Shaping the Future in Thirteenth-Century Norway. #medievalsky #imc2026 #oldnorse

Reminder! Just over a week to submit an abstract to @jakestattel.bsky.social and I for IMC Leeds 26. We’d love to hear from you! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC26 #Medievalsky

The Oxford Centre of the National Trust is looking for a volunteer to take over managing their website (oxfordcnt.co.uk). This is ideal for someone based in Oxford, but can be done remotely too.

Very delighted to say that I graduated with my PhD in English on Monday.

On Friday, I submitted my doctoral thesis - 'Incite, Seduce, Martyr: Female Verbal Power in the Texts of AM 226 fol.' It still hasn't sunk in. Thanks to everyone who has supported me throughout this process.

CFP for @imc-leeds.bsky.social for July 2026: "Old English in the Long Nineteenth Century". Please share widely! Deadline for abstracts 1 September 2025. #IMC2026

Call for Papers: "New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora" Call for Papers: "New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora" CfP: Leeds International Medieval Congress 2026 (6-9 www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...

This year, #IMC2025 was also the first anniversary of Bodies and Being! Francesca writes about her experience and our amazing matching tees. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

Had a brilliant time leading ‘Viking Skills’ workshops for the Derbyshire Scout’s Experimental Archeology weekend in Gradbach. Adapted our usual Vikings for Schools activities for the workshop with the Scouts carving clay runic inscriptions and building their own ship burial!

CFP - Leeds International Medieval Congress is seeking papers considering 'New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora' - they welcome papers on Viking settlements across Europe. We would love to see your research on the relationship between the Vikings and Court Studies! bsky.app/profile/jake...

Going to be co-editing a book series for Boydell&Brewer on "The Medieval Urban World." Open to proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, and/or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, and/or Islamic world. For more info, plz email [email protected]. Happy to hear from first-time authors.

Call for Papers from @em-ehx.bsky.social and I for IMC Leeds 2026: 'New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora'. Send us a title and abstract by 18 August! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 #Medievalists #Medievalsky #EarlyMedieval #VikingStudies

In usual IMC fashion, now that #IMC25 has concluded we are searching for papers exploring New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora. Please get in touch if you are interested and share widely! #IMC26 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Fantastic time at #IMC25 @imc-leeds.bsky.social and a pleasure to be part of two brilliant panels. Great to catch up with old friends and make so many new ones (human and bird)!

Looking forward to my first #IMC25 @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week. Excited to be speaking on (tues) and chairing (wed) two brilliant panels!

Saga Brief 37c – Icelandic Impressions of the Sagas (Interview with Anna Melsteð) This special Saga Brief interview with Anna Melsteð (of the Eyrbyggja Saga Society) was recorded at the foot of Helgafell on a drizzly afternoon following a full day of exploring key sites from Eyrbyggja Saga with…

Happy to share that my article on the codicology of the Exeter Book has been published Open Access in the Journal of the English Association! academic.oup.com/english/adva...

Kirkwall from above, en route to Papay

More Birsay puffins - this time from my camera. Incredibly lucky to get so close to them!

Amazing views over the Stronsay Firth from the conference room at UHI Orkney. Incredibly apt location for the Mapping Identities: Geography and Cosmology workshop. Many thanks to organisers Oisín and Andrew, other speakers, and hosts @insuhi.bsky.social for a brilliant day!

Puffin, Brough of Birsay

And finally - Day 23, Wed 28th May, me and my brilliant van in Sangerði. Somehow survived 3 weeks and 4,108km together.

Day 22, Tuesday 27th May, Reykjavík

Day 21, Monday 26th May, Þingvellir

Day 20, Sun 25th May, Borgarnes

Day 19, Sat 24th May, Orca off Snæfellsnes

Day 18, Friday 23rd May, view over Þórsnes from Helgafell

Day 17, Thurs 22nd May, Laxá

Day 16, Wed 21st May, Látrabjarg Bjargtangar - (one of) the most western point(s) of Europe (depending on your metric)

Day 15, Tues 20th May, Dynjandi

Day 14, Monday 19th May, Drangey from Grettislaug

Day 13, Sunday 18th May, Eyjafjörður and Hrísey from Dalvík

Day 12, Sat 17th May, Skútuskaðagígar in Mývatn

Day 11, Friday 16th May, Húsavík from Skjalfandi. Saw several humpback whales! 🐋

Day 10, Thurs 15th May, Arctic Henge in Raufarhöfn

Day 9, Wed 14th May, Baby Reindeer (10 months)

Day 8, Tues 13th May, Lagarfljót í Fljótsdalur from Hrafnkelsstaðir

Day 7, Mon 12th May, Skútafoss

Day 6, Sun 11th May, Stokksnes and Vestrahorn

Day 5, Sat 10th May, Jökulsárlón (ft. a harbour seal)

Day 4, Fri 9th May, Reynisfjara

Day 3, Thursday 8th May, the rather rainy Vestmannaeyjar

Day 2, Wed 7th May, Gljúfrabúi

Posting a photo for each day of my Iceland trip (on slight delay). Day 1, Tues 6th May, Garður

For International Women's Day #IWD check out our project dedicated to Ragna, an Orkney wife in the twelfth century, and her memorable appearances in the #Saga of the Earls of Orkney blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland... @ragnasislands.bsky.social