Institute for Northern Studies

Research output

Research output per year 1995 2021

• 55 Article
• 53 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 22 Book/Film/Article review
• 21 Chapter
• 63 More
  • 16 Book
  • 14 Other contribution
  • 7 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 5 Commissioned report
  • 5 Other report
  • 4 Conference contribution
  • 4 Special issue
  • 3 Review article
  • 2 Abstract
  • 2 Paper
  • 1 Comment/debate

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2021

  Shetland's Norse Identity: 'Da Norn is lang gien, but hit’s left a waageng'

  Jennings, A., 1 Apr 2021, Scotland and Islandness: Explorations in Economy and Culture. Burnett, K. (ed.). Peter Lang, (Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland Series).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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• 2020

  A Potential Viking Fort in Shetland: The extraordinary Kame of Isbister

  Jennings, A., 25 Sep 2020, Viking Encounters Proceedings of the Eighteenth Viking Congress. Pedersen, A. & Sindbaek, S. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 345-354 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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  • sea 100%
  • coastal erosion 73%
  • slate 72%
  • cliff 65%
  • refuge 65%
  70 Downloads (Pure)

• Laws and Assemblies

  Brink, S., Jul 2020, Pre-Christian Religions of the North. History and Structures, vol. 2: Contexts and Communication between Worlds. Andrén, A., Lindow, J. & Schjødt, J. P. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, Vol. 2. p. 445-479

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Scandinavia 100%
  • Medieval Scandinavium 73%
  • Interdisciplinary Team 66%
  • Religion 60%
  • Christian Religion 53%

• Legal Space in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Scandinavia

  Sanmark, A., Oct 2020, "Rechtsräume": Historische und archäologische Annäherungen : Studien zur Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte. Ehlers, C. & Grewe, H. (eds.). Vittorio Klostermann, Vol. 4. p. 281-300 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Medieval Scandinavium 100%
  • Late Iron Age 79%
  • Early Medieval Period 57%
  • Scandinavia 15%
  • Place Names 14%

• Slavery in Medieval Scandinavia: Some Points of Departure

  Brink, S., Oct 2020, Viking-Age Trade: Siver, Slaves and Gotland. Gruszczynski, J., Jankowiak, M. & Shepard, J. (eds.). London & New York: Routledge, p. 40-56 17 p. (Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Upon the utmost corners of the warld: Orkney in early maps and literature

  Heddle, D., 2020, What is North?: Imagining and Representing the North from Ancient Times to the Present Day. Brepols Publishers, p. 15-37 (The North Atlantic World).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Orkney 100%
  • Metaphysical 35%
  • Fictional Representations 31%
  • Liminal 24%
  • Cartography 24%

• “What was a cooking-pit called in the Iron Age?"

  Brink, S., 2020, Re-imagining Periphery: Archaeology and Text in Northern Europe from Iron Age to Viking and Early Medieval Periods. Hillerdal, C. & Ilves, K. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 103-106 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
• 2019

  Assembly Organisation in the Longue Durée: The Scandinavian Thing Institution in its European Context

  Sanmark, A., 24 May 2019, Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae. Warsaw: Societas Vistulana, Vol. 23. p. 151-173 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Viking Age 100%
  • Conflict Resolution 86%
  • Written Sources 76%
  • Traits 63%
  • Government 41%

• Gekauft, geraubt, verdingt. Spurensuche zum Sklaventum

  Brink, S., 27 Sep 2019, Die Wikinger: Entdecker und Eroberer. Staecker, J. & Toplak, M. (eds.). Berlin: Propyläen, p. 161-172 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Howard Barker 100%
  • Slavery 52%
  • Viking 10%

• K(i)æfsir in the Old Västgöta and Östgöta Laws

  Brink, S., 3 Jun 2019, Tidens landskap: En vänbok till Anders Andrén. Ljung, C. (ed.). Lund: Nordic Academic Press, p. 137-138 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Scandinavian Languages 92%
  • Slave Woman 88%

• Nordic Noir: Sagas and Sources

  Heddle, D., 30 Nov 2019, Vikings and the Vikings: Essays on Television’s History Channel Series. Hardwick, P. & Lister, K. (eds.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland, p. 21-35 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Nordic Noir 100%
  • Sagas 63%
  • Viking 23%
  • Source Material 19%
  • Philosophy 16%
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• ‘The thing cottage at Anundshög’

  Sanmark, A., Jonsson, K., Bäck, M. & Lindeberg, M., 30 May 2019, Tidens landskap. Cecilia, L., Kristina, J., Andreasson Sjogren, A., Berg, I., Engstrom, E., Hallans Stenholm, A-M., Klevnas, A., Qvistrom, L. & Zachrisson, T. (eds.). Lund: Nordic Academic Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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• 2018

  Memory in Law

  Brink, S., 19 Nov 2018, Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies.: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Glauser, J., Hermann, P. & Mitchell, S. (eds.). Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 153-165 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Medieval Law 100%
  • Scandinavia 74%
  • Cultural Memory 72%

• Onomastics (Memory in)

  Brink, S., 19 Nov 2018, Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Glauser, J., Hermann, P. & Mitchell, S. (eds.). Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, p. 565-574 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Onomastics 100%
  • Cultural Memory 90%
  • Names 48%
• 2017

  Our Islands Our Future: Purposeful Opportunism at its Best

  Jennings, A., 15 Sep 2017, From Black Horses to White Steeds: Building Community Resilience. Brinklow, L. & Gibson, R. (eds.). Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: Island Studies Press, p. 10-29 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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  • opportunism 100%
  • campaign 54%
  • political relations 22%
  • referendum 19%
  • jurisdiction 15%
  18 Downloads (Pure)

• Three Scottish Coastal Names of Note: Earra-Ghàidheal, Satíriseið, and Skotlandsfirðir

  Jennings, A., Nov 2017, The New Coastal History: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives from Scotland and Beyond. Worthington, D. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 119-129 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Hebrides 100%
  • Old Norse 90%
  • Onomastics 82%
  • 11th Century 75%
  • Place Names 74%

• Uppsala – in Myth and Reality

  Brink, S., 2017, Theorizing Old Norse Myth. Brink, S. & Collinson, L. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 175-194 30 p. (Acta Scandinavica; vol. 7).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Old Norse 100%
  • Mythology 69%
• 2016

  (Wikinger) Gesellschaft und Kultur

  Brink, S., 2016, Wikinger!. Helmbrecht, M. (ed.). Rosenheim: Koehler im Maximilian Verlag GmbH & Co , p. 78-89 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• An exploration of thing sites in the Islands on the Scottish West Coast

  Sanmark, A., Aug 2016, Traversing the Inner Seas. Cooijmans, C. (ed.). 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Coast 100%
  • Scotland 67%
  • Scandinavia 47%
  • Place Names 45%
  • Viking Age 28%

• Memories and Metamorphoses: A Short Introduction to the Supernatural Tales and Beliefs from Fetlar in Shetland

  Jennings, A., 5 Feb 2016, Folk Belief and Traditions of the Supernatural. Kuusela, T. & Maiello, G. (eds.). Denmark: Beewolf Press, p. 27-58 32 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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• Skoit du oot-by, Magnie: Scots Grammar Supported by Norn in the Dialects of the Northern Isles?

  Ljosland, R., 1 Dec 2016, Shetland and the Viking World: Papers from the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Viking Congress Lerwick. Turner, V., Owen, O. & Waugh, D. (eds.). Lerwick: Shetland Heritage Publications, p. 69-76 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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  • Do-support 100%
  • Orkney 81%
  • Shetland 79%
  • Grammar 73%
  • Grammatical Structure 70%
  172 Downloads (Pure)

• The be-perfect in transitive constructions in Orkney and Shetland Scots: Influenced by Norn or not?

  Ljosland, R., 7 Nov 2016, Before the storm. Selected Papers from the FRLSU Conference, Ayr 2016. . Millar, R. M. & Cruickshank, J. (eds.). Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Vol. 5. p. 107-127 21 p. (Publications of the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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  • Transitive Construction 100%
  • Orkney 95%
  • Shetland 93%
  • Leveling 81%
  • Old Norse 29%
  225 Downloads (Pure)

• The Orkney Huseby Farms – The onomastic, historical and archaeological context

  Sanmark, A. & Barbara, C., 8 Aug 2016, Husebyer - status quo, open questions & perspectives : Papers from a workshop at the National Museum Copenhagen 19–20 March 2014. Christensen, L. E., Lemm, T. & Pedersen, A. (eds.). Copenhagen : National Museum of Denmark, Vol. 20:3. p. 91 105 p. 6. (Studies in Archaeology & History ).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Orkney 100%
  • Onomastics 83%
  • Archaeological Context 79%
  • Farm 58%
  • Historical Context 54%
  37 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  At the assembly: a study of ritual space

  Sanmark, A., 2015, Power of practice: Rituals and politics in Northern Europe c. 650- 1350. Jezierski, W., Hermansson, L. & Orning, H. J. (eds.). Brepols Publishers, p. 79-112 33 p. Part II

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Political Ritual 100%
  • Ritual Space 96%
  • History of Religion 53%
  • Scandinavia 50%
  • Continental 41%

• Place Names in Eddic Poetry

  Brink, S. & Lindow, J., 2015, A Handbook in Eddic Poetry. Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia. Quinn, J. & Larrington, C. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 173-189 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Place Names 68%
  • Poetics 44%
  • Poetry 42%

• Scots (Orkney)

  Heddle, D., 2015, Alice in a world of wonderlands: the translations of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, Vol. 1. p. 504-507 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Scots (Orkney dialect)

  Heddle, D., 2015, Alice in a world of wonderlands: the translations of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, Vol. 2. p. 572-575 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The Old Rock's Rockin' - a cultural anatomy of Shetland.

  Jennings, A., 1 Sep 2015, Culture, Place & Identity at the Heart of Regional Development. Toronto: ISER Publications, p. 112-128 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • cultural event 100%
  • assets 62%
  • art 53%
• 2014

  Bryten

  Brink, S., 2014, Medeltida storgårdar. Karsvall, O. & Jupiter, K. (eds.). Uppsala: Academiae Regiae Gustav Adolphi , p. 59-82 24 p. (Acta Academiae Regiae Gustav Adolphi ; vol. 131).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Librum legum terre Hælisingie : the inspection and approval of versions of the law-book of the Hälsingar’

  Brink, S., 2014, The power of the book: Medial approaches to medieval Nordic legal manuscripts. Rohrbach, L. (ed.). Berlin: Humboldt Universität, Berlin, p. 157-162 6 p. (Berliner Beiträge zur Skandinavistik ; vol. 19).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Minnunga mæn – The Usage of Old Knowledgeable Men in Legal Cases

  Brink, S., 2014, Minni and Muninn: Memory in Medieval Nordic Culture. Hermann, P. & Mitchell, S. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 197-210 13 p. (Acta Scandinavica; vol. 4).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Reading Cult and Mythology in Society and Landscape: The Toponymic Evidence

  Brink, S., 2014, Nordic Mythologies: Interpretations, intersections, and institutions. Tangerlini, T. (ed.). Berkeley: North Pinehurst Press , p. 157-172

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• The Hälsinge Law between South and West, King and Church, and Local Customs

  Brink, S., 2014, New Approaches to Early Law in Scandinavia. Brink, S. & Collinson, L. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 37-56 20 p. (Acta Scandinavica; vol. 3).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Women at the Thing

  Sanmark, A., 2014, Kvinner i Vikingtid. Coleman, N. & Løkka, N. L. (eds.). Scandinavian Academic Press, p. 85-100 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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  • Viking 100%
  • Iceland 49%
  • Norway 41%
  • Early Medieval Period 39%
  • Primary Source 38%
  112 Downloads (Pure)

• “Language planning in practice in the Norwegian higher education sector”: Chapter 3

  Ljosland, R., 30 Oct 2014, English in Nordic Universities. Ideologies and practices. Hultgren, A. K., Gregersen, F. & Thøgersen, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 53-82 29 p. (Studies in World Language Problems; vol. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Language Planning 100%
  • Language Policy 91%
  • Ideology 73%
  • Norway 71%
  • Corpus Planning 61%
• 2013

  Die Christianisierung Skandinaviens

  Brink, S., 2013, Credo: Christianisierung Europas in Mittelalter. Kroker, M., Walter, W. & Stiegemann, C. (eds.). Petersberg: Imhof, Vol. 1. p. 250-260 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• "Early Ecclesiastical Organization of Scandinavia, especially Sweden

  Brink, S., 2013, Medieval Christianity in the North: New Studies. Salonen, K., Villads Jensen, K. & Jørgensen, T. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 23-39 18 p. (Acta Scandinavica; vol. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Myth and Ritual in Pre-Christian Scandinavian Landscape

  Brink, S., 2013, Sacred Sites and Holy Places: Exploring the Sacralization of Landscape Through Time and Space. Brink, S. & Walaker Nordeide, S. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 33-51 19 p. (Studies in Early Middle Ages; vol. 11).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• STRATIGRAPHIES OF MEMORY: A CASE STUDY OF THE ANGLO-SAXON SCULPTURE FROM WHARFEDALE, WEST YORKS.

  Whitworth, V., 31 Dec 2013, (In preparation) Memories in the Making: The Materialities, Biographies and Landscapes of Early Medieval Stone Monuments.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

  • Viking Age 100%
  • Anglo-Saxon 73%
• 2010

  From Dál Riata to the Gall-Ghàidheil.

  Jennings, A., 2010, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, Vol. 5. p. 123-149 26 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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  • Settlement Names 100%
  • Annals 68%
  • Place Names 66%
  • Scotland 65%
  • Ethnic Groups 63%
  871 Downloads (Pure)

• Living on: ancestors and the soul

  Sanmark, A., 2010, Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited. Carver, M., Sanmark, A. & Semple, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow, p. 162 184 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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• "The Norse element in the Orkney dialect"

  Heddle, D., 15 Nov 2010, Northern Lights, Northern Words: Selected papers from the FRLSU Conference, Kirkwall 2009. McColl Millar, R. (ed.). Forum for Research into the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, p. online 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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  • Orkney 100%
  • Shetland 49%
  • Cultural Identity 45%
  • Substrate 42%
  • Social Context 36%
  267 Downloads (Pure)

• The Topography of Outdoor Assembly in Europe with Reference to Recent Field Results from Sweden

  Sanmark, A. & Semple, S., 2010, Perspectives in Landscape Archaeology. Semple, S. & Lewis, H. (eds.). Oxford, p. 107 119 p. (British Archaeological Reports. BAR International Series ; vol. 2103 ).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • topography 100%
  • Sweden 91%
• 2009

  One coast - three peoples: names and ethnicity in the Scottish west during the early Viking period

  Jennings, A. & Kruse, A., 2009, Scandinavian Scotland - Twenty Years After: The Proceedings of a Day Conference held on 19 February 2007. Woolf, A. (ed.). St Andrews: University of St. Andrews, Committee for Dark Age Studies, Vol. St John's House Papers No 12. p. 75-102 168 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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• The sociocultural effects of aviation in the Northern Isles

  Heddle, D., 2009, Scottish Life and Society: Transport and Communication. Veitch, K. (ed.). Edinburgh: John Donald, Vol. 8. p. 630-644 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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  • air traffic 100%
  41 Downloads (Pure)
• 2008

  Tingsplatser, makt och landskap

  Sanmark, A. & Norr, S., 2008, Hem till Jarlabanke: Jord, makt och evigt liv i östra Mälardalen under järnålder och medeltid. Olausson, M. (ed.). Lund: Historiska media, p. 379 396 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 2007

  The language of the gutters?

  Heddle, D., 2007, Travels and travails of the Scots herring girls. UHI Press, p. 14-20

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
• 2006

  The History of the Northern Periphery

  Heddle, D., 2006, Northern Heritage. Heddle, D. (ed.). Inverness: UHI Press, p. 7-31 25 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

  • Legal System 100%
  • Mythology 83%
  • History 60%
  • Religion 40%
• 2005

  An Ethnic Enigma – Norse, Pict and Gael in the Western Isles

  Jennings, A., 2005, Viking and Norse in the North Atlantic. Selected papers from the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Viking Congress. Torshavn: Føroya Fróðskaparfelag, p. 284-296

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
• 2004

  The Norse Place-Names of Kintyre

  Jennings, A., 2004, Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350: Contact, Conflict, and Coexistence. Brepols Publishers, p. 109-119 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review