Maeshowe, Orkahaugr – The names of Orkney’s great burial mound as nodes in a heteroglossic web of meaning-making

Ragnhild Ljosland

Maeshowe, Orkahaugr – The names of Orkney’s great burial mound as nodes in a heteroglossic web of meaning-making

Ragnhild Ljosland

Archaeology Institute

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Situated on a central thoroughfare on the Orkney Mainland, and in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Area, is the c. 5000-year-old burial mound now known by the name of Maeshowe. In the Orkneyinga Saga, however, and in a runic inscription in the mound itself, the mound has another name: Orkahaugr, or Orkhaugr.

The aim here is to discuss these names focusing on reception and interpretation, asking which stories have been told about these names from the Middle Ages to the present, and what these stories can tell us regarding how those who heard and told them understood the mound: Its exterior and, perhaps more importantly, its interior, contents and meaning.

源语言	English
主期刊名	What is North?
主期刊副标题	Imagining the North from Ancient Times to the Present Day
编辑	Oisin Plumb
出版地点	Turnhout
出版商	Brepols Publishers
章节	11
页	193-210
页数	18
ISBN（电子版）	978-2-503-58503-1
ISBN（印刷版）	978-2-503-58502-4
出版状态	Published - 15 6月 2020
活动	The third St Magnus conference: Visualising the North - Orkney 期限: 14 4月 2016 → 16 4月 2016

出版系列

姓名	The North Atlantic World
出版商	Brepols
卷	1

Conference

Conference	The third St Magnus conference
时期	14/04/16 → 16/04/16

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Ljosland_Maeshowe_OrkahaugSubmitted manuscript, 301 KB许可: CC BY-NC

Ragnhild Ljosland
- ragnhild.ljoslanduhi.acuk
- UHI Orkney - Lecturer
- Archaeology Institute - Lecturer
人员: Academic - Research and Teaching or Research only

1 Examination
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Tru og meining i gamal tid Episode 96: Haugbu og haugbrot på Orknøyane
Ljosland, R. (Speaker)
28 8月 2025
活动: Podcast or webinar
Carving the Self. Portrayals of the Self in Medieval Textual Graffiti from Norway and Connected Territories.
Ljosland, R. (Examiner) & Bianchi, M. (Examiner)
23 11月 2021
活动: Examination

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Maeshowe, Orkahaugr – The names of Orkney’s great burial mound as nodes in a heteroglossic web of meaning-making

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Ragnhild Ljosland

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Tru og meining i gamal tid Episode 96: Haugbu og haugbrot på Orknøyane

Carving the Self. Portrayals of the Self in Medieval Textual Graffiti from Norway and Connected Territories.

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