Celebrating Nordic-Scottish Literary Links

Enjoying our ScotBookFlood Issue and want to find out more? This specially curated Pinterest board presents some top titles from non-fiction to fiction for adults, young adults, and children for furthering your Scottish-Nordic reading.
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Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ívarr... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1906716064/ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_x_KyUfAb5GCSERX
The Norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas about fate in Old Norse tradition. In this book. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of the role played by Norns and other beings like them.
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Dunedin Academic Press

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Floris Books

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Often amusing, sometimes romantic or fraught with danger, these 30 short stories are about local people, spectacular places and the special wildlife the author sets out to find. The stories include seeking out Arabian Oryx on the searing plains of the Saudi desert; eiderdown collecting in Iceland, crouching in swirling clouds and darkness on a …
This is a much-needed update on a pioneering reintroduction project and its much-celebrated success. It also provides essential background and a logical and objective summary of its justification and significance in global conservation terms. It is very much a personal account, although fundamentally based upon and cognisant of the science, deriving much from the author’s …
Spitsbergen is the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago which is situated between the Greenland and Barents Seas, approximately 600 miles from the North Pole. In the 16th century the islands were visited by Barents’ expedition and in the ensuing centuries were used primarily as a base for hunting whales, polar bears, seals and walruses. …

Whittles Publishing

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THE GARDENby Magnus Florintranslated by Harry WatsonPages: ...
THE DEATH OF THE PERFECT SENTENCEby Rein Raudtranslated by Matthew ...
A HAPPY LITTLE ISLANDby Lars Sundtranslated by Peter ...

Vagabond Voices

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The Revenge of Tirpitz by [M. L. Sloan]

Cranachan

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Monuments of Orkney

Historic Environment Scotland

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Canongate

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Nordic Genre Film
Viking Law and Order
Northern Neighbours

Edinburgh University Press

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A Utopia Like Any Other

Luath Press

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A co-publication with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The 93 Lewis Chessmen, bought by the British Museum and by what is now the National Museum of Scotland in the mid nineteenth century, were made in twelfth century Scandinavia, from ivory and whales’ teeth. They continue to fascinate academics from various disciplines, as well as …
The humorous and intricately designed hoard of Lewis Chessmen is one of the most significant archaeological discoveries ever made in Scotland, now divided between National Museums Scotland and the British Museum. This book (now in its fifth reprint) is the only one to show images of all 93 pieces. It looks at the discovery of …

National Museums Scotland

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