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Judith Jesch

@judithjesch.bsky.social

Happiness is sunshine in Nouster Bay #NorthRonaldsay #Orkney

September 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM

Corinna

@shroomgirl.bsky.social

Spent a lovely windswept day delivering the Ragna's Islands Project #NorthRonaldsay booklets (saga-stories, poetry and place-names) to islanders. It is wonderful to be here again! #Orkney #OrkneyingaSaga #Placenames

September 20, 2026 at 6:21 PM

Rhoda Meek

@wodieskodie.bsky.social

Counting this as a win. After teaching the 5 Ronnies to eat seaweed, I let them loose on a wee bit of the croft with access to the shore. Found them a day later feasting exactly where I wanted them to be, so I rewarded them with a sprinkling of nuts. Here's hoping they stay there! #northronaldsay

Five wee light coloured sheep on a pebbly beach, with seaweed and sea behind them.

January 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Judith Jesch

@judithjesch.bsky.social

And it all started when the Icelander Hallr rocked up in #NorthRonaldsay... Ragna, of @ragnasislands.bsky.social's fame, got him the introduction to Rǫgnvaldr's court. See #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney ch. 81.

Skaldic Project @skaldic.org · Aug 2

Hjaldrkyndill beit hildar
— harðr brandr es þat — garða;
ljós varð hǫggs í hausum
— hjǫr kallak svá — gjalla.
Hart skar hildar kerti
— hjalms grand es þat — randir,
þvít benlogi brynju
beit; nefnik svá hneiti.
RvHbreiðm Hl 68

August 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM

Corinna

@shroomgirl.bsky.social

Born in #NorthRonaldsay at Nouster in July 2019... our #Orkney #SourDoughStarter is now just over 7 years old! Pictured here at Verracott. Fed occasionally on #Birsay #Beremeal

A killer jar with a sour dough starter mixture pictured in front of a stone-built croft.

September 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM

Corinna

@shroomgirl.bsky.social

A #NorthRonaldsay stile (L) for @lakesstiles.bsky.social & @judithjesch.bsky.social near Roofed Geo, formerly Sodlis Geo from ON söðull m. 'saddle' with gjá 'coastal gully, inlet', both apt #PlaceNames! #Orkney

Colour photo of a stone wall with a wooden stile very close to a rocky shore with a covered coastal gully giving it a roofed appearance. The sea is foaming and rushing into the gully.

September 18, 2026 at 8:33 PM

Judith Jesch

@judithjesch.bsky.social

Island art #NorthRonaldsay

Rusty anchor and buoys on a rope on a dry stone wall

September 3, 2024 at 7:38 PM

Judith Jesch

@judithjesch.bsky.social

Some #NorthRonaldsay sheep especially for @osteoconnor.bsky.social - they do blend in nicely.

Seaweed-eating sheep on the shore of North Ronaldsay, Orkney

September 3, 2024 at 7:28 PM

Ness of Brodgar

@nessofbrodgar.bsky.social

As part of the 2025 North Ronaldsay Science Festival, site director Nick Card will be giving a free, online talk at 1.45pm on Saturday, March 15, 2025.
#archaeology #neolithic #Orkney #NorthRonaldsay #NessOfBrodgar

Ness online talk on Saturday as part of North Ronaldsay Science Festival

As part of the 2025 North Ronaldsay Science Festival, site director Nick Card will be giving a talk at 1.45pm on Saturday, March 15.

www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk

March 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM

UHI Archaeology Institute

@uhiarchaeology.bsky.social

ORCA's survey of Millhouse, North Ronaldsay, carried out as part of the From Peat Spade to Tangle Trade industrial heritage project, is now online.
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/04/m...
#archaeology #industrialheritage #Orkney #NorthRonaldsay

Milling complex added to North Ronaldsay industrial heritage page - Archaeology Orkney

ORCA's survey of Millhouse, North Ronaldsay, carried out as part of the From Peat Spade to Tangle Trade industrial heritage project, is now online.

archaeologyorkney.com

February 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM

Ragna's Islands

@ragnasislands.bsky.social

Here's a blog we wrote while visiting the Hookin/gs of #Papay & #NorthRonaldsay in the summer! Thanks to our wonderful project #volunteers we have some early(ish) spellings! Here they are! But what does Hookin/g mean? Find out in our blog: shorturl.at/EAizI

Four manuscript forms of the North Ronaldsay place-name Hookin. The spellings include Hou-king, Hooking, Hakin, and Howkin.

November 14, 2024 at 9:17 AM

Scotland travel info 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@scotlandtravel.bsky.social

North Ronaldsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ronaldsay

Populated island in Orkney Council region. Where the native-breed sheep are fenced OFF the land and eat seaweed

#Scotland #Orkney #NorthRonaldsay

By Ian Caldwell - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1741542

kwScotland kwOrkney kwsettlement kwisland kwpicgallery

April 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM

Judith Jesch

@judithjesch.bsky.social

This brings up memories of my last visit to #NorthRonaldsay twelve years ago... norseandviking.blogspot.com/2012/04/ligh...

Information board about a trail around the North Ronaldsay lighthouse.

September 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM

UHI Archaeology Institute

@uhiarchaeology.bsky.social

The first North Ronaldsay site surveys, carried out as part of the 'From Peat Spade to Tangle Trade' industrial heritage project, are now online.
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/01/30/n...
#Orkney #NorthRonaldsay #Archaeology #IndustrialHeritage

First of the North Ronaldsay industrial heritage surveys available online - Archaeology Orkney

The first North Ronaldsay site surveys, carried out as part of the 'From Peat Spade to Tangle Trade' industrial heritage project, are now online.

archaeologyorkney.com

January 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM

pierartscentre.bsky.social

@pierartscentre.bsky.social

Finding Dr Garvie - a creative collaboration between Orkney artist
Fiona Sanderson and the people of North Ronaldsay opens at the North Ronaldsay Island Archive today.

On display 24 July-24 August 2025

#NorthRonaldsay #PierArtsCentre

July 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM

Sue Dumbleton

@stirlingriversider.bsky.social

That's a hard one. I'm going for #OldBeacon, the third ever #lighthouse built in #Scotland. It's on #NorthRonaldsay, #Orkney. But there were so many contenders. If you enjoy photography think about joining #Blipfoto www.blipfoto.com

An old and now disused stone built lighthouse on North Ronaldsay, Orkney.

December 31, 2024 at 3:06 PM

Ragna's Islands

@ragnasislands.bsky.social

Some #Orkney bird #placenames from the 1st ed. OS of #NorthRonaldsay: Scarfie Geo, Scarf Skerrie & Doo Geo, with Marwick's thoughts about Saedar 'A great resort (and nesting place) of cormorants', from ON setur 'a seat, residence' here interpreted as the sitting-place of cormorants on Seal Skerry!

Image showing two close-ups of place-names from the first edition Ordnance Survey in North Ronaldsay, Orkney featuring the the bird place-names Scarfie Geo, Scarf Skerrie, and Doo Geo. There is also an entry from Hugh Marwick's 'North Ronaldsay Place-Names' (1924, about the place-name Saedar. It reads, "Saedar,.The highest part of Seal Skerry–rarely covered even at high water. A great resort (and nesting place) of cormorants. There are two possible original forms of this word. 1. ON setur, pl. of seta, a seat, residence; here interpreted as the sitting-place of the cormorants. 2. ON sœtur, pl. of sœta a midden, dunghill; equally appropriate from the habits of these birds."

November 19, 2024 at 9:13 AM

EnSonHaber

@ensonhbr.bsky.social

#NorthRonaldsay #İlkBebek #İskoçya #Türkiye #TRTHaber

Daha fazlası: https://t.me/ensonhbr

September 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM

Kelly Jarvis

@kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social

Mood Board Monday: Selkie Moon begins on North Ronaldsay, the northernmost island in Orkney. A stone wall circles the island, protecting the cultivated farmlands from the wild sheep who live along the shore 🌊🐑🩵🐚

#moodboardmonday #orkney #scotland #northronaldsay #Selkies #SelkieMoon #debutnovella

May 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM

Corinna

@shroomgirl.bsky.social

ON kelda f. 'spring, well' etc. is found in many #Orkney #PlaceNames such as Keldie Geo, Keldy Gates (gata f. 'road') Too Kelday (þúfa f. 'hill') in #Papay, Bakka-Kelday (bakki m. 'bank, ridge') in #NorthRonaldsay, & Cotkelday (kot n. 'Small farm, cottage' etc.) in #Stronsay.

Dictionary of Old Norse Prose @onp.ku.dk · Dec 23

Yesterday’s #Wordle: kelda (sb. f.): 50 cits, e.g. of geyser, hot spring) // (om gejser, svovlkilde ‘Keldur vellandi ok brennustein fær þar ínóg’ (GBp in Holm perg 5 fol) onp.ku.dk/o42979 #OldNorse

December 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM

Ragna's Islands

@ragnasislands.bsky.social

‘I do not know what it is I see in #NorthRonaldsay, sometimes it lifts itself up, & sometimes it lays itself down. It is either a bird or a person, & I’ll go to it.’ With the close of the birding season we thought you might like to find out about the first "birder" in #Orkney! shorturl.at/EwRnq