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Landscape and Ecology in Old Norse | Doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham | Place-Name Enthusiast | she/her

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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 23h
Very excited to be joining The Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space as a Visiting Fellow in spring next year! le.ac.uk/research/cen...
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Visiting Fellows | Humanity space | University of Leicester
The Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space welcomes Visiting Fellows from a wide range of disciplines, sectors, and backgrounds.
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Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So I've had a speaker drop-out last minute from the session dedicated to Old Norse female networks and communities! I still need to figure out next steps but is there coincidentally anyone who'd like to present in this session? #MedievalSky #OldNorse
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The recording of the Faroes Shetland Research Symposia 'Medieval Religious & Legal Connections across the Norse Atlantic World' held online on 24th September 2026 has now been uploaded to our YouTube channel. youtu.be/pY4X8RpiobU?...
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Medieval Religious & Legal Connections across the Norse Atlantic World FSRS Online Symposium
YouTube video by UHI Institute for Northern Studies
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Norse in the North @norseinthenorth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Norse in the North 2027: Life and Death Abstract deadline: 1st February 2027 We welcome proposals from postgraduate students for papers in any area of Old Norse, medieval Scandinavian, and Viking studies relating to the theme. We look forward to reading your proposals! #callforpapers #oldnorse
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Rachel Maloney @raem30.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Submissions still open!
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Extended deadline for the Institute for Names studies sponsored Medieval Onomastics panels at Leeds IMC 2027 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC27 ! Get your abstracts in to Tristan and Rachel ASAP, but no later than the 25th September. Please share with colleagues, students, friends, enemies etc
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Extended deadline for the Institute for Names studies sponsored Medieval Onomastics panels at Leeds IMC 2027 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC27 ! Get your abstracts in to Tristan and Rachel ASAP, but no later than the 25th September. Please share with colleagues, students, friends, enemies etc
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
”It’s just weather”, until suddenly there’s nothing to eat.
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New book - publication date April 2027 - #booksky #medievalsky
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Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The CSVA is going on summer holiday! We’ll be back with more news on our research and events in September. Until then we leave you with some beautiful views of Shetland (details in ALT text), courtesy of @em-ehx.bsky.social, who recently completed her fieldwork there. #PhDLife #summerholiday
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Incredibly proud that the Vikings for Scouts project has won Community Archeology Project of the Year in the Council for British Archaeology’s 2026 Marsh Awards. A truly fantastic collaboration between the @uoncsva.bsky.social and Derbyshire Scout Archaeology 🎉 www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/archaeo...
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News - University project wins prestigious archaeology award for inspiring young people through Viking heritage - University of Nottingham
The Vikings for Scouts project, a pioneering collaboration between the University of Nottingham
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Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🎉WE WON!!🎉We're so proud to announce that the CSVA's 'Vikings for Scouts', an IAA-funded collaboration with the Derbyshire Scout Archaeology Team, has won Community Archaeology Project of the Year at the CBA's 2026 Marsh Awards! Well done to the whole 'Vikings for Scouts' team for their hard work!
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Incredibly proud that the Vikings for Scouts project has won Community Archeology Project of the Year in the Council for British Archaeology’s 2026 Marsh Awards. A truly fantastic collaboration between the @uoncsva.bsky.social and Derbyshire Scout Archaeology 🎉 www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/archaeo...
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News - University project wins prestigious archaeology award for inspiring young people through Viking heritage - University of Nottingham
The Vikings for Scouts project, a pioneering collaboration between the University of Nottingham
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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One of the most fun writing experiences in recent memory. Thank you @liamh2os.bsky.social and @postmedieval.bsky.social !
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow, congratulations to Vikings for Scouts!
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A watery trespasser, featuring Jayne Carroll of @englishplacenames.bsky.social and @uonenglish.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How did the River Trent get its name?
There are various theories around how the UK's third-longest river was named.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The queue for the Mobile Library yesterday 🐈‍⬛️🐈
A photograph taken inside the Mobile Library. There are two cats waiting to be served.
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Mary Catherine O'Connor @marycoconnor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Leeds IMC 2027 CALL FOR PAPERS @jonasza4.bsky.social and I are organising more sessions for next year's Leeds IMC - Check out our CfP here on "Communities of the Realm: Shaping Thirteenth Century Norway"
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Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#IMC2026 may be over but the calls for papers for #IMC2027 are just beginning! Call for Papers on Cognitive Communities in the North Sea Zone, organised by the CSVA's @smasters2001.bsky.social and @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social. Submit your 200-word abstracts by 26 August 2026! #medievalsky
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Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
For those already excited for #IMC2027, @marycoconnor.bsky.social and I are organizing sessions on 'The Literary Communities of Old Norse and Icelandic Romance'! 🌟If you would like to get involved, please submit a 250 word abstract and short bio by 18th September 🌟 #medievalsky
The Literary Communities of Old Norse and Icelandic Romance
Through the translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannaie and the efforts of Hákon Hákonarson, king of Norway (r. 1217-1263), romance reached the Medieval North where it soon took hold of the Scandinavian imagination. Old Norse translations of Old French romances were copied and transmitted from Norway to Iceland. These romances soon inspired a wave of new literary creations, leading to the production of Icelandic chivalric romances and later ballads and rimur, alongside potentially influencing other literary genres. These narratives were amongst the most popular stories read and received amongst medieval and later Icelandic communities as the manuscript preservation attests. And yet they continue to be amongst the most understanded communities of texts within Old Norse literary studies. This session seeks to respond to this gap in scholarship and invite papers which investigate these texts, challenging former assumptions and opening up new avenues of scholarship on these texts.

Suggested themes and topics may include but are not limited to:


· Chivalric romances, fornaldarsögur
· Translation (Old Norse and Old Swedish)
· Literary communities
· Gender
· Emotions
· Genre
· Families/ genealogies
· Travel/ geography
· Marginalised identities
· Manuscript reception and transmission
· Society and hierarchy
· Ethnicity and religion
· Monsters
· Transgression
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography by Friday 18th September to Mary Catherine O’Connor (mary.oconnor@balliol.ox.ac.uk) and Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk)
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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Understanding how North Sea heritage is shaped during a time of rapid economic, environmental and cultural change is at the heart of a major new doctoral research initiative led by the University of Aberdeen.
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Funding secured for North Sea heritage doctoral research consortium
Understanding how North Sea heritage is shaped during a time of rapid economic, environmental and cultural change is at the heart of a major new doctoral research initiative led by the University of Aberdeen.
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Jessie Summerhayes @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
IMC was wonderful… so wonderful that Sam Masters and I are excited to do it all again next year! Here is the CfP for next year on the theme of Communities. @imc-leeds.bsky.social
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Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Come see “New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora” #IMC2026 #MedievalSky
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
At @imc-leeds.bsky.social and interested in the Norse diaspora? Join myself and @jakestattel.bsky.social on Wednesday for a full day of fantastic papers in Clarendon 1.01
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Tom Fairfax @tcfairfax.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Looking forward to Leeds IMC (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next week, where I'll speaking on the first of @em-ehx.bsky.social and @jakestattel.bsky.social 's panels on Wednesday morning! Hope to see some of you there! 🙂 If you'd like to meet up during the conference, send me an email (tom@ssns.org.uk)!
Title slide for Leeds IMC
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Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Very excited this is getting off the ground, and hope applicants to Cambridge who want to study the Middle Ages will consider Girton! #medievalsky
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Very exciting day scheduled on Saturday at Nottingham’s Life and Landscape postgraduate research showcase. Looking forward to hearing all of our speakers!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
members of the Norway men’s national football team on a rocky shore, styled as a fierce group of ancient Vikings. They are dressed in elaborate historical costumes, including fur-trimmed capes, leather tunics, chainmail, and armor pieces, while holding traditional gear like circular wooden shields, spears, axes, swords, and blowing horns. In the background, longships rest on a calm body of water that cuts through a vast, dramatic fjord. The rugged landscape is framed by massive, steep green mountains, with a thin waterfall cascading down a cliff face on the left, all under a cloudy, overcast sky.
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Excellent view of Orkney on the way back from Faroe! A nice treat after the outbound journey of rain, cloud, and fog.
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Jonas ZA @jonasza4.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Are you working on the history, culture, or literature of medieval Norway? If so, consider submitting an abstract for this upcoming volume edited by @marycoconnor.bsky.social and me! #MedievalSky #OldNorse
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Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The joys of doing fieldwork in the Faroes! Check out this beautiful shot of Múlarfossar in Gásadalur by CSVA doctoral student @em-ehx.bsky.social, who is currently visiting the Islands, researching saga landscapes for her thesis. #faroeislands #PhDlife
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The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland @snsbi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For those of you who live near Nottingham, you are invited to this exciting day conference, "Life & Landscape: Postgraduate Research Showcase" @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. See: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even... @uonenglish.bsky.social @namestudies.bsky.social
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A month until our research showcase! Register online and visit our website for more details. Program to be released shortly.
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A month until our research showcase! Register online and visit our website for more details. Program to be released shortly.
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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
There’s still time to register. Registration closes at 5pm tomorrow.
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Life and Landscape Research Showcase held at the University of Nottingham on Saturday 13th June is now open for registration! We have a very exciting day of papers from nine Early Career Researchers and keynote lecture by @susan-kilby.bsky.social. Please share, this event is open to all!
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Life and Landscape Research Showcase held at the University of Nottingham on Saturday 13th June is now open for registration! We have a very exciting day of papers from nine Early Career Researchers and keynote lecture by @susan-kilby.bsky.social. Please share, this event is open to all!
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
'A History of Scotland in Five Maps' - a newly confirmed seminar at The National Library of Scotland with Dr Oisín Plumb & Dr Andrew Lind ➕ Thursday 25 June 2026 ➕ At the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh ➕ 5.30pm -6.30pm ➕ Free www.nls.uk/whats-on/his...
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A history of Scotland in five maps | National Library of Scotland
Explore how maps have shaped Scotland's perception of its geography, history, and national identity.
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Corinna @shroomgirl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There are lots of skáli #PlaceNames in #Orkney! At the moment I'm happily wandering around those in #Rousay: Saviskaill (sea-hall) & Langskaill (long-hall) in Wasbister & Skaill in Westness! Jane Harrison wrote about skális in 'Building mounds: Viking-Late Norse settlement in the North Atlantic'.
Saviskaill (Rousay) - colour photo taken across a white sandy shore with rocks and a view of the stone farm buildings, covered in yellow lichen, in the distance. A deep blue sky above and the sea in the middle ground. Saviskaill (Rousay) - colour photo taken across grassland and a view of the stone farm buildings, covered in yellow lichen, beyond.
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Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Excellent new article on literary connections across the North Sea by @mlangerer.bsky.social out now in open access #Medievalsky #EarlyMedieval, doi.org/10.1017/ean....
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Old English beyond England: Ælfric, False Gods, and North Sea Literature | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core
Old English beyond England: Ælfric, False Gods, and North Sea Literature - Volume 52
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Fantastic first day at the 7th St Magnus conference, hosted by @insuhi.bsky.social at @uhiperth.bsky.social. Looking forward to the rest of the papers and our tour of Perthshire!
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Good to see @uoncsva.bsky.social folk out spreading their research! @em-ehx.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nottingham University PhD candidate Em Horne discussing 'Water Based Communities in the Íslendingasögur' @thinkuhi.bsky.social Institute for Northern Studies 7th International St Magnus Conference
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Chris Callow @chriscallow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...
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Sagas! The 2026 Midland Viking Symposium
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Centre for the Study of the Viking Age @uoncsva.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Take a look at this throwback from the UON English Substack by Francesca Squitieri about their evening sharing fascinating research with the Southwell Women's institute all about Women in the Viking Age:  uonenglish.substack.com/p/sharing-ou...
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Sharing our research with the Southwell Women’s Institute
An evening of storytelling about women in the Viking Age
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#Medieval #football #Norway
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Judith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Hi folks, do give @uoncsva.bsky.social a follow - they've just joined. #Vikings #OldNorse #runology
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Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📢 Call for Book Chapters for our Book Series Old Norse Studies Networks in Old Norse Literature: Methods, Models, and New Directions, edited by @liamh2os.bsky.social and Erika Dell’Aquila Abstracts (300–400 words) due 1 May 2026 Full papers due 1 December More here: shorturl.at/wbnEe
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em horne @em-ehx.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
An incredibly interesting day and a pleasure to be a part of!
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