Assoc for Scottish LiteratureFeb 20

When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472

NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #Norse

Northern-ness - The Bottle Imp

Much of what is good and true in our laws and social customs, much of what is manly and vigorous in the British Constitution, and much of our intense love of freedom and fair play, is due to the pith, pluck, enterprise, and sense of justice that dwelt in the breasts of the rugged old […]

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A Deep, Owld Anchor

“Even writing about Nicaragua or New York, Cuba or my adopted home of Glasgow, it is with Shetlandic eyes that I see the world, and with Shetlandic ears that I hear it”

—Christie Williamson on da wirds an wyes o spaekin in Shaetlan

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/a-deep-owld-anchor/

#Scottish #literature #Shetland #Shetlandic #Norse

A Deep, Owld Anchor - The Bottle Imp

“What makes them Shetlandic?” I was asked recently by a senior member of the University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing department. I was outlining projects of mine to determine their compatibility or otherwise with one of their programs, and described the poems I aspired to make as Shetlandic. The best response I could find at the […]

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Auld rock meets Nordic Noir

“the idea of the ‘Nordic’ is constructed through the naming of the landscape rather than geography itself”

– Hanne Tange & Gunhild Agger turn a Danish gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/auld-rock-meets-nordic-noir-a-danish-gaze-on-shetlandic-scandinavian-ness/

#Scottish #literature #Shetland #Shetlandic #Norse

Auld Rock meets Nordic Noir: A Danish Gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness - The Bottle Imp

The Scandinavian traveller arriving through Sumburgh is greeted in a homely way. On the road taking drivers out of the airport area stands a multilingual sign, which welcomes voyagers in the four languages of English, Norwegian, German and French. To the Scandinavian the sign is an oddity, signalling at once historical connectivity and geographical distance. […]

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Norse Past, Victorian Present

“Orkneyinga Saga… is at once a historical chronicle and a literary fantasy… Rich in paradox, invention and embellishment”

– Simon Hall addresses Orcadian readings of the 12th/13th-century Orkneyinga Saga

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/norse-past-victorian-present-orcadian-readings-of-orkneyinga-saga/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #medieval #saga #Viking #Norse

Norse Past, Victorian Present: Orcadian readings of 'Orkneyinga Saga' - The Bottle Imp

I am privileged to work in a school in the village of Pierowall on the Orkney island of Westray, and my Monday morning commute is pretty spectacular. At Kirkwall airport, I board the little eight-seater Britten-Norman ‘Islander’ aircraft, and within a few moments we are in the air. Climbing westward from Grimsetter, the Islander veers […]

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Persistence of Vision: Blue Black Permanent

“For Tait, making the bigger picture… didn’t mean compromising the poetry. For her, cinema itself was essentially a poetic medium”

– Sarah Neely on the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life & work

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/persistence-of-vision-blue-black-permanent-and-the-enduring-legacy-of-margaret-taits-life-and-work/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #filmmaking #cinema #20thcentury

Persistence of Vision: 'Blue Black Permanent' and the enduring legacy of Margaret Tait’s life and work - The Bottle Imp

This year marks the centenary of the Orcadian filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait, who was born on Armistice Day, November the 11th, 1918.  During her lifetime, Tait produced over thirty short films, self-published three volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, and became Scotland’s first female feature filmmaker with the release of Blue Black […]

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The New Orkney Language Literature

Harry Josephine Giles looks at

“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”

& a literary rebirth

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

The New Orkney Language Literature - The Bottle Imp

“Orkney Library and Archive, Kirkwall” by summonedbyfells is licensed under CC BY 2.0 For a small place, Orkney has produced an extraordinary literature. Simon W. Hall’s 2010 study, The History of Orkney Literature, which won the Saltire Society First Book Award that year, drew a magisterial line from the sagas through modernism to the contemporary […]

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In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature-an-excerpt-from-deep-wheel-orcadia-a-future-fantasy/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

The New Orkney Language Literature - an excerpt from 'Deep Wheel Orcadia: a Future Fantasy' - The Bottle Imp

“Space station V morning” by Les Chatfield is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Deep Wheel Orcadia is a space station orbiting a gas giant, a few hundred years in the future and a few light years from Earth. Astrid was born there, and has returned after studying at art school on Mars. Darling, from a […]

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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”

—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles

At the same time, I want to argue, what is really electrifying about it is the way it does something distinctly science-fictional, not only at the levels of worldbuilding and plot, but at the level…

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