Viking scholars in the county for week-long field school

Members of the Orkney Viking Heritage Project are in the county this week as part of a field school on viking culture.

Academics from the UHI’s Centre for Nordic Studies will be working with staff from Oxford, Cambridge and Nottingham universities in the project, which will give Old Norse-Icelandic and viking studies students and researchers the opportunity to take part in inter-disciplinary workshops.

The sessions will explore a range of subjects, including literature, coinage, archaeology and museum skills, which are rarely all taught in single university departments.

As part of the week of events, two free lectures are open to the public.

Gods and Beasts: Animals and the Divine in Norse Myth, by Carolyne Larrington, takes place tonight and The Kings of Norway and the Solund Sea: Legend, History and the Origins of the of the Earldom of Orkney, by Alex Woolf, tomorrow, April 16.

Both talks are free and take place in the lecture theatre of Orkney College at 7.30pm.