The UHI Archaeology Institute’s Professor Ingrid Mainland, Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Dr Siobhan Cooke-Miller were invited to participate in a Ragna’s Islands project workshop held in Kirkwall earlier this week.
The workshop brought together a small group of specialists to discuss Orkney’s Viking and Late Norse archaeology, history, placenames and literature in response to the Ragna’s Islands research.
Ragna’s Islands is an AHRC-funded research project built around a new translation of The Saga of the Earls of Orkney, better known as the Orkneyinga saga. It is bringing together evidence of archaeology and placenames to transform our understanding of the Viking and Norse periods in northern Scotland.
Ingrid gave a presentation on our ongoing excavations at Skaill, Rousay, which is part of our Landscapes of Change research project, with Sarah Jane and Siobhan contributing on aspects of their research into Viking, Late Norse and Medieval Orkney.
Click here to view the Ragna’s Islands blog (highly recommended).
