What a lovely presentation

Were these islands ever covered in trees? I thought not...But no archaeogist ever tells what energy/fuel/tree species was providing all these fires Deer would not be thriving much on windswept islands. SO....Are the deer from the mailand¿ isotope work on some animals is needed

Great please film the fotos and diagrams for much longer. We all know the stomach profile of the speaker but it takes at least a minute to read the diagrams

its not a farming communitty the obvious cattle bones is proto hearding theses peoples were anti farmers for obious reasons now hearders i beliver would have sowed seeds on there way and from this realisation we get those that broke off to ve de fault farmers now orkney they wear making heards people cantbeasily steal your cattle wehen on on island esspecialy with no preadators these islands were corals as such wear people became rich and as said leuise brings spledour

Wow that neolithic wall is jaw dropping, well done.❤

Fascinating…. plus I’ve learnt how to pronounce Holm!

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no mention of John gater ?

It will be interesting to see if the people who did all the construction are the one civilisation, or group, or if they are different groups.

I have been anxiously awaiting this video. Thanks for posting it. Very exciting and interesting. I also love how in the acknowledgements at the end, everyone has a last name except Travis, but we all know who Travis is!

A series of self ventilation building constructed at varying degrees in order to assess the most efficient direction at right angles to the prevailing winds..

Great detective work - thanks Hugo and Vicki

Great talk, thank you, and good look for future excavations!

Thank you

Great pity that the questions section so tantalising!!

Wonderful conversation. Thanks.

excellent talk. thank you.

Absoltly astonishing

I appreciate this lecture very much. I'm the translator of Prof. Torgrim Titlestad's "Viking Legacy" (Norge i Vikingtid") and I found this video while researching my own next novel. This was helpful. My own take on the Thorfinn/Macbeth question is that if Thorfinn was the same person as Macbeth, then the saga is wrong about Thorfinn's death. It says Thorfinn died in bed, while we know Macbeth to have died in battle. I have a great deal of trouble believing that a saga writer would forget about a Viking hero dying in battle.

Great talk - it is actually possible to buy a separate drive that can still read floppy discs if anyone has any previously thought of as obsolete discs laying about!

Thank you for this video, ive been trying to learn more about Thorfinn

That was an unexpected little gem! I had been watching an American youtuber, talking about a brief history and heritage of the Island, and his name came up, so I did a quick search and clicked on your channel. I think the whole saga idea is definitely something I like as nothing else lasts longer than pen and ink. Easy to follow with lots of detail and colourful in more ways than one. Thankyou very much!

Excellent video. I believe as an Orcadian fiercely proud of my Norse Heritage that more needs to be done at grassroots level here in Orkney with regards to Education. The Viking age in Orkney was worthy of its own saga but is only given lip service by locals and incomers alike. Heritage is something that is felt as much as anything and I don't think in this day and age it is encouraged. We live in a place where we spoke a completely different language in Norn but recently wanted to teach our kids Gaelic? (Why not Nynorn?) We live in a place where we gather to wave Norwegian flags but have little understanding of the independence felt through generations at the time,and conflict we had with Norway to keep the independence in check? From place-names and surnames being forgotten and watered down to the forgetting of history that is uncomfortable to some, I fear that the "Norse Heritage " will ultimately go the way of Norn. In terms of tourism, the sites will be reduced to just a list of names and a few piles of stones. We never touch on how the Scots earls treated the indigenous Norse population after annexation but look to see how the Norse affected the picts? I work at the St Magnus Centre and there is a huge thirst for information on our Norse Heritage out with the building itself (I have been guilty of pointing out some disparities between St Magnus's Saga and others at the time) Shetland started burning a boat in 1881 ( just after our language died) and has a far greater sense of it's Norse Heritage than we do (despite being an outpost when it wasn't part of the earldom) They have a lot more pride than what we do for some reason? I'd like to see the Norse part of our history embraced (warts and all) before it is forgotten. I'd also like people to stop putting horns on helmets 🤣

Hi could i find out more info on the sea battle of roebury south ronaldsay between thorfinn and rollo...( Im not sure on the spelling also) thank you p.s. really enjoyed the talk/story.

Wonderful talk!

Thankyou Martin

Very interesting! Thank you

Like the statue behind you 😊

Fantastic thanks for sharing :)