Orkney

Some have suggested that the stone circles align with a portion of the skyline, which aligns with the sun on Midsummer’s morning. The stone circles are positioned in such a way to indicate when the longest day of the year is arriving and leaving, and to indicate when winter is coming and when agricultural practices should be attended to. Moving onward, we can draw more information about this topic by examining the Orkney Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland. Several stone circles stand along these different islands and a few of these monoliths I found to be the most interesting were, “The Standing Stones of Stenness”, and the “Ring of…

Lancelot spends a lot of time proving he is a good knight, and when he arrives to King Arthur's court he falls in love with King Arthur's wife, Guinevere. Guinevere does not at first respond to Lancelot's advances, but eventually gives in to his request. Another Knight of the Round table is Gawain. Gawain is generally said to be the nephew of Arthur. His parents were Lot of Orkney and Morgause. In the English tradition Gawain is more known to be the principal hero and the exemplar…

and empire, marriage was the way to go. The Vikings I believe picked up on this and realized how effective it was. Considering the Vikings didn’t necessarily have “kings” until a few that actually sat on the English throne, they didn’t for the expansion and holdings of the lands that they have conquered. Orkney and Shetland Orkney and Shetland are pretty far from being extremely significant in the overall picture. England and the Celtic Kingdoms are bigger and would supply the Vikings with…

subject to internment. Some historians like Colpi states that the experience of shopkeepers was to be overshadowed by the disastrous sinking of the Andorra Star and the experiences of Italian POWs. On July 1st 1940 the Andorra Star was bound for Canada carrying 1,562 internees, 764 of these were Italian. The German U-boat U47 torpedoed the ship and caused it to sink. A large number of these men who died were from Glasgow and Edinburgh; this had a lasting effect on the Italian communities in…

The earlier Arthurian texts mentioning Sir Gawain don’t go in great detail of what Gawain’s armor looks like, but does shed light on a more probable heraldic symbol. According to Helmut Nickel’s essay titled, “Notes on Arthurian Heraldry: The Retroactive System in the “Armagnac” Armorial”, there is a strange complication is Gawain’s heraldry. Nickel mentions that if we look to the traditional methods of medieval heraldry, knights like Lancelot and Gawain’s family seem to fit the mold. As…

in Frankenstein, she even has a few listed in the beginning pages of the book. Even though Romantic vs Gothic is not listed on the same page as the others, they are well talked about throughout the book. In this book, the word romantic does not have the same definition we are normally used to; Romantic consists of symbolism, nature, emotions, supernatural, and imagination. It has a variety of meanings. Gothic does have the same meaning but, its lead towards mysterious and supernatural. Victor…

Scott Ashley writes, “Malory shows…the foundations for future adventure and tragedy in telling of the king’s incestuous fathering of Mordred with his half sister, Morgause of Orkney”(9). Although Arthur does not know that the woman who he slept with was in his kin as stated by Malory, “But all this time King Arthur knew not that King Lot's wife was his sister” (164), the fact that he slept with her while being married to Queen Guinevere shows just how inadequate he his. Seemingly as penance for…

Hiya! – hello! Scotland’s mainland shares a border with England to the south. It is home to almost 800 small islands, including the northern isles of Shetland and Orkney, the Hebrides, Arran and Skye. Its neighboring countries are England, Northern Ireland, and Norway. Major cities are located in the Scottish lowlands (cultural area) with 80% of the population. Scotland has its northern lights, highest mountains, and its golden beaches. The culture of Scotland refers to the patterns of human…

Determined to start work on his promised mate for his creation Victor bid his friend a farewell and began a tour of Scotland alone 19) Victor journeyed to a very remote part of Scotland, the Orkneys in order to begin his. While staying in a small hut he has rented on the islands he sees the creature and decides that he can not continue his work on the promised mate. Victor rips the almost finished body apart while the creature watches helplessly from the window. Angry, Frankenstein's creature…

The geography of Scotland is varied, from rural lowlands to unspoilt uplands, and from large cities to separate inhabited islands. Located in Northern Europe, Scotland comprises the northern one third of the island of Great Britain as well as 790 surrounding islands encompassing the major archipelagos of the Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands and the Inner and Outer Hebrides. Scotland’s only land border is with England, which runs around for 60 miles, or 97km, in a northeasterly direction from the…