Corinna
Shrooms, plants, place-names, illicit whisky stills... currently working on the #PlaceNames of Eday, Rousay & Stronsay #Orkney
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- Reposted by CorinnaJust one week until UHI Institute for Northern Studies Mapping Identities Conference hosted at UHI Perth and online 10/02/2026. Full programme now confirmed. Still time to register www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...
- Interesting project about house names by Ragnhild Ljosland being discussed on Around #Orkney this morning! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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- Some great place-names too! Courtesy of Marwick: Hassings ON hálsa m. 'neck', for the isthmus joining the Holm to Cairn Head... the route from the island... to an island (at low tide) & Tide o' Hest m. 'stallion' somewhere off the south end there.
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- 2026 batch of Seville Orange #Marmalade... done!
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- The 'other' Marwick (Ernest W., writer & folklorist) noted that Via is "pronounced Veea" & that tradition says "there was on[c]e a church here" & that the "bu'(?) was present in the flat piece of ground behind the home." 'Bu' is perhaps 'bow' 'indicating the cultivated ground' there (H. Marwick).
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- Reposted by CorinnaDue to popular demand, 'Traversing the Inner Seas' is available in print again, in case you missed it the first time around!
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- ON kelda f. 'spring, well' etc. is found in many #Orkney #PlaceNames such as Keldie Geo, Keldy Gates (gata f. 'road') Too Kelday (þúfa f. 'hill') in #Papay, Bakka-Kelday (bakki m. 'bank, ridge') in #NorthRonaldsay, & Cotkelday (kot n. 'Small farm, cottage' etc.) in #Stronsay.
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- Listening to this with a cup of coffee and a mince pie... ooh and my copy of the fab new translation...
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- Yay!
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- Just ordered this! Will wrap it for #Christmas I reckon... since lots of feasting took place in the Bu too! shop.orcadian.co.uk/product/pre-...
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- They look wonderful! Must plan our trip back!
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- This...
- Well, this must be the latest Giant Puffball (Calvatia gigantea)I've ever found! Out with the advent decs this evening! #festivefungi #shrooms
- Love a pronunciation story!
- Marwick reckons this name may be ON vé-haugr ‘holy mound’ on account of a mound here but Thomson opts for ON við ‘beside’. Beside the mound? Or maybe beside the little watercourse there, from ON á f. ‘river, stream’? This name also occurs in Sandwick (HY 259 159) also near a burn (& a tumulus)!
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- Reposted by CorinnaI had a great time giving this talk yesterday! And it's already available to watch in YouTube! Huge thanks to @insuhi.bsky.social for having me!
- Last night's @thinkuhi.bsky.social excellent Public Seminar by Tom Fairfax is now online. Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of Orkneyinga saga youtu.be/r2Tgd4HBkzI
- This was fascinating! Thanks Tom!
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- This looks great! Wish I could come!
- Just received my gorgeous #Papay calendar! What a view of St Tredwell's Chapel! Thanks @papayranger.bsky.social x
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- ON hestr occurs in many #NorthernIsles #PlaceNames including Hestivall #Rousay where it is compounded with ON vǫllr m. ‘plain, meadow, pasture’; Hesti Geo #FairIsle compounded with gjá f. ‘inlet, coastal gully’ & Marwick notes the #Papay fishing mark Hest as well as a tide so-names S. of the Holm.
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- Working on the wonderful @ragnasislands.bsky.social project with @judithjesch.bsky.social and @matthew-blake.bsky.social was so rewarding... & now that Judith's book is out... even more so! Here's to more #Orkney #Viking research! (I'll carry on with the #PlaceNames!)
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- Just ordered one of these! Gorgeous photography... can't wait to see it!
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- Yes, there are lots of 'pows' in Orkney and it seems to be from either Scots poll or ON pollr which can be variously translated (depending on context) as 'pool, small cove, puddle, sea inlet, pond, mire' etc.
- Marwick suggests this #PlaceName derives from ON Jǫtunn ‘giant’. The same word is in Yettna Geo (Sandwick) & in a Rousay standing stone of which it ‘is said that in the early hours of every New Year’s Day the Yetnasteen takes 2 giant strides down to the nearby loch for a drink!' (Rousay Remembered)
- Ooh! Will be in touch! Love the cover photo... a favourite place...
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