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The Influence of Outside Cultures on the Gaelic Tongue
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor
[ca. 1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of an ms. paper by Lloyd Weedon on Gaelic language in Scotland and its decline. The file also includes a photocopy of a page from an unidentified publication showing a m...
Up-Helly-Aa: Ship Burning
Nott, Dorothy A
January 1968
Burning of a replica Viking ship at the Up-Helly-Aa festival in Lerwick (Shetland Islands). Traditionally, Yule fires were burnt for the festival. The custom of burning a Norse galley was introduced i...
Up-Helly-Aa: Firing of the Ship
Nott, Dorothy A
January 1968
Torchlight procession and firing of the replica Viking ship at the Up-Helly-Aa festival in Lerwick (Shetland Islands). The procession replaced the custom of pulling blazing tar barrels through the str...
Russekeila
Brunk, Wille
[1967]
This file contains printed maps produced following excavations at a settlement in Russekeila, Spitsbergen Island, Norway. Brunk appears to have been interested in the architectural aspects of the sett...