NorseMap

It isn't mentioned here, but the the Department of English (where we are based) rose to 82nd in QS rankings, making it the second ranking discipline in the university 🎉

UCC leaps up university rankings for fourth year in a row Up 53 places in only two years

Did we consider using this Viking warrior photo-cut-out board in Waterford for our new profile pictures? Yes, we did...

The project team was privileged to visit the new excavation of the Viking settlement at Woodstown near Waterford at the invite of Neil Jackman, and to see the finds that are already coming to light. Big ideas for the site, which would be such a boost to the region and to engagement with Viking heritage in Ireland.

We have some super exciting news about our launch event on Saturday 5 September that we will be sharing soon, but if you're interested in the Vikings, save the date!

[Painting 'Idun and Brage' by Nils Blommér (1846). Public Domain.]

We were really excited to contribute a video on the Viking brand for this new exhibition on 'Vikingmania', and to receive an invitation to the opening reception at the Museum of Danish America. Congrats to all involved!

The first publication arising from the NorseMap Project is now available open-access via Boydell & Brewer. It looks at the recent use of the Vikings in and around the MAGA movement.

It can be viewed here: https://openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/?fileid=-47834

[Image: Oscar A. Wergeland, 'Nordmennene lander på Island år 872' (1877), Public Domain.]

We gave a sneak preview of the iViking Cultural Heritage Collection App at the School of English and DH Research Day at UCC yesterday. It is almost there!

NorseMap represented at the exciting launch of the Future Humanities Institute at UCC by this wonderful historical photograph of a cat dressed as Brynhildr, from the Library of Congress archives (should point out that we are not a climate services project though!)

Mention of a few Old Norse pronouns as well in this BBC article featuring discussion with the PI of NorseMap.

Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

One from the archives: on this day in 1936, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ran a story with the headline 'Remains Of Viking Longship Found In Waimanalo Quarry'...

https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/vikings_in_hawaii