Hi #medieval friends! Our conference is NEXT WEEK! You can still sign-up via: forms.gle/CUn6gnGFFV3sVX…

An auspicious start to our seminar series - spotting the northern lights of Old Aberdeen after our first meeting 😍

📢BOOK LAUNCH! Congratulations to alum Dr Caroline Wilhelmsson, whose new book The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy is out now (Routledge)! We will host a book launch on Thurs 24 Oct, 5pm in CB009. 🥳

A wonderful report (and pictures!) from the Summer School in Manuscript Studies by our own Maryann Pierse, who received funding from the Viking Society for Northern Research to attend. The rest of us are living vicariously through the report! vsnr.org/wp-content/upl…

📢 SGSAH has 25 new Internships which are now OPEN for applications! Get paid to enhance your research skills and boost your career prospects ✨ Open to all Arts & Humanities PhD researchers across Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Apply by Nov 15 🔗sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/ List of partners👇

The theme of this year’s #NordicMusicDays is Word of Mouth – exploring how stories, music, and traditions through generations. ✨ With rich linguistic and cultural connections between Scotland and the Nordics, this festival is a celebration of shared heritage and voices. 🗣️🎶

🥳Congratulations to PhD researcher Jennifer Hemphill, who last week had a successful viva for her thesis 'Weather Magic in Medieval Scandinavia (c. 800-1555)'. 🤩🎉

Upcoming seminar, 14 Nov, 5pm GMT: 'Portages and Inland Waterways: Travel and Communication in Scandinavian Scotland', by Prof Prof Alex Sanmark UHI Institute for Northern Studies. Hybrid and open to all: in person at 50-52 College Bounds, CB009 or register to join online docs.google.com/forms/d/1gRRXe…

Absolutely fascinating talk on portage and inland waterways in Scandinavian Scotland from Prof Alex Sanmark at University of Aberdeen this evening. Many thanks, Alex! I look forward to hearing more!

Join us on Wed 20 Nov 7pm in the library (meeting room 1) for a Nordic Literature Read-Aloud! We will hear extracts from Sjón's Skugga-Baldur (The Blue Fox) in English, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Doric! And we'll hear a response from a fox in Old Norse 🦊

🇬🇧🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Another wonderful Nordic Read Aloud on a snowy night in Aberdeen, hearing extracts from Sjón’s Skugga-Baldur in English, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Doric, and from the poem Skaufhala bálkr in Old Norse-Icelandic and English! 🦊 #nordisklitt24

Online seminar 28/11, 5pm GMT: 'The Christianization of Scandinavia: Three Possible Ways of Approaching a Complex Theme', by Prof. Lukas G. Grzybowski (Londrina). All welcome; sign up here to join via MS Teams: docs.google.com/forms/d/1fkl-D…

“Reading the Marginal in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds”: Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference, 31 May-1 June 2025. Call for Papers: 250-word abstracts and speaker bios due 31 December 2024 to [email protected]

New publication! Edited by wonderful CfSS alum and colleagues and a fantastic outcome from the Performing Magic conference series.

Class of '24 MLitt Viking and Medieval Nordic Studies graduate Miles Lourenco presented his dissertation at Yale University's Medieval Lunch seminar last week. Here he is in action - great job, Miles!

Self-funding international students are entitled to an £8,000 fee waiver to study our MLitt Viking and Medieval Nordic Studies on campus! abdn.ac.uk/study/postgrad…