Welcome to the Scottish Society for Northern Studies Website (SSNS)
About the Society
The Society is a Scottish-based group having much in common with the Viking Society for Northern Research.
It was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic and Scottish cultures and provides a forum in Scotland for specialists and enthusiasts of many disciplines to pursue their common ‘northern’ interests.
Through its seminars, conferences and publications, the Scottish Society for Northern Studies seeks to encourage further exploration and research, locally throughout Scotland and beyond.
Features of the website include information on how to join the Society or renew membership, details of past and future events, entry information on the student essay prize and details of Society publications. There is also a searchable database containing an index of the contents of every volume of the Northern Studies journal.
'Unmasking the Lewis Chessmen' seminar
Society members will be interested in the 'Unmasking the Lewis Chessmen'
one-day seminar at the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street,
Edinburgh on Saturday 11th September. The seminar will take forward the
research started by Dr. D H Caldwell and colleagues, which was presented
at the Edinburgh SSNS conference in June 2009. There will also be
exciting new things to report resulting from new scientific analyses of
the pieces. An international audience is anticipated and a lively debate
is anticipated on the some of the issues.
Further information is to found on the NMS website:
on the current exhibiton on the chessmen
and on the seminar
Editor for Literature
Dr Kirsty MacDonald, UHI Or1kney Campus, Scottish Cultural Studies.
Kirsty.Macdonald@orkney.uhi.ac.uk
Reviews Editors
for history and archaeology
Dr Andrew Jennings, Post-doctoral Fellow, UHI
Centre for Nordic Studies, NAFC, Port Arthur, Scalloway,Shetland.ZE1 0UN
Andrew.Jennings@nafc.uhi.ac.uk
for literature
Silke Reeploeg, Researcher, UHI Centre for Nordic Studies
NAFC, Port Arthur, Scalloway,Shetland.ZE1 0UN
Silke.Reeploeg@uhi.ac.uk
Latest Information
SSNS Review: Member Consultation
All members are invited to complete the QUESTIONAIRE, and copies have also been sent out with the journal, Northern Studies 41 (posted 27 July 2010). Please choose whether to complete and return as an email attachment or by ordinary mail as hard copy. Return-by date: 20 August 2010.
As always, non-members are warmly invited to join the Society. Please select the Membership page for further details.
Day Conference and AGM
Saturday 27 November
2010, at the Augustine Centre, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. The main
theme will be aspects of folklore and folktales from Iceland, Norway
and Scotland.
Please select Forthcoming Events for further details and put the date in diaries now! The full programme will be posted and mailed out later.
Latest Publication
Barra and Skye: Two Hebridean Perspectives
Arne Kruse - Editor
Alasdair Ross - Assistant Editor
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies
Edinburgh 2006
This new volume which provides an up-to-date account of recent research on a very wide range of topics relating to both islands, derives from two conferences held by the Society in Barra (April 2002) and Skye (April 2003).