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ALT Detail from the manuscript name book for Fair Isle. The excerpt reads, ‘Cancelled No Room to write’ written in red ink across the place-name 'Whills'. OS Name Books, 1877-1878 Shetland, Volume 11, OS1/31/11/91.
ALT CCASNC 2025: SICKNESS AND WELLNESS We are delighted to announce that the call for papers for the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2025 is now open. This year's theme is 'Sickness and Wellness', and our keynote speaker will be Dr Christina Lee, from the University of Nottingham. The conference will be held on Saturday, 22nd February 2025, at the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP. The 2025 colloquium especially welcomes papers that focus on a range of topics relating to wellness, illness and more generally health, across the various disciplines that look at the early medieval period, including literature, history, archaeology, theology and manuscript studies. We hope that this year's colloquium will offer fresh insights into how illness was cured and wellness was maintained in early medieval Britain and Scandinavia. Submit abstracts by 10th November of no more than 250 words to [email protected]!
ALT Book cover for 'Close to where the heart gives out'. The picture shows a stormy sea cliff. The book is about a Doctor who moves with his family to Eday, Orkney, and is by Malcolm Alexander.
ALT Aerial view of Weelie's Taing, Papa Westray, showing a tidal pool shore feature. Image courtesy and Copyright of Jonathan Ford (www.jonathanford.org).
ALT Detail from Blaeu’s map of Orkney, showing ‘Dams Øy’ and ‘Greenbuster holm’ (Grimibister), 1654. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. Hand-coloured seventeenth-century map showing the Bay of Firth (Orkney) and the islands of Damsay and Greenbuster holm (Grimbister).
ALT Colour photo of a pair of ash- coloured mushrooms with white stems in needle litter.
ALT Four white mushrooms in moss and leaf litter.
ALT Spore print under the microscope.
ALT Black and white woodcut print of Viking ships in calm waters surrounded by hills. The illustration was for 'The History of Olav Trygvason', Snorre Sturlason, Kongesagaer, 1899, NG.K&H.B.05049 - National Museum of Art, Architecture & Design (Public Domain). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erik_Werenskiold_-_H%C3%A5kon_Jarls_skip_i_natteleie_-_NG.K%26H.B.05049_-_National_Museum_of_Art,_Architecture_and_Design_(cropped).jpg
