Folktales from the Sea on Orkneyjar.com
A selection of folktales connected to the sea can be found on the Orkneyjar.com website:
http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/sea.htm… Read More “Folktales from the Sea on Orkneyjar.com”
The Orkney Dictionary online
Wondering what an Orkney dialect word means? You can now look it up online in the Orkney Dictionary.
https://orkneydictionary.scot/
The site also has some examples of texts in Orkney dialect including:
- A Hunder Key Orkney Words
- Speir Thoo the Wast Wind by Christina M. Costie
- Willick Meets the Oilmen –
Orkney Cloud Magazine
The Orkney Cloud project is looking at how to use the islands rich energy resources and thick social networks to address issues of connectivity at the edge of the communications network.
The project magazine, available to read online, explores the possibility for what an Orkney Cloud could be, both in … Read More “Orkney Cloud Magazine”
Orkney Ecologies – Rebecca Ford
Humanities 2020, 9(1), 5;
https://doi.org/10.3390/h9010005
Open Access
Abstract
Inspired by Felix Guattari’s Three Ecologies ([1989] 2000), this article explores recent Orkney literature with an environmental focus (Working the Map—ed. J & F Cumming and M. MacInnes; Ebban an’ Flowan—Finlay, A., Watts, L. and Peebles, A.; The Outrun—A. Liptrot; … Read More “Orkney Ecologies – Rebecca Ford”
Orkney Folk Tales
Local Orcadian storyteller Tom Muir shares some traditional tales for troubled times on the Orkneyology.com website.
Video of Tom telling a Selkie story, from the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
Assipattle and the Stoor Worm… Read More “Orkney Folk Tales”
Energy at the End of the World
Book on Orkney energy futures by Laura Watts. “Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.”
Online resource (university library permalink)… Read More “Energy at the End of the World”