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12 December 2024
Starts: 19:30
Y-Chromosome Testing: To what extent can it provide insight into the origins and connections between kindreds recorded in the 1467 manuscript?
Online talk by Alasdair F. MacDonald
Organised by Scottish Society of Highland & Island Historical Research. Non-members other than students are requested to donate £5. For details on how to register and donate, see their website.
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12 December 2024
Starts: 19:00
‘The Battle Scene on Sueno’s Stone, Forres: blood, burning and the Bible’
Online talk by Prof. Jane Geddes
Organised by Scottish Society for Northern Studies. Free. Further information and bookings from their website.
A new study of the battle scenes on ‘Sueno’s Stone’ was prompted by a detailed set of new drawings by John Borland and a C14 dating which places it in the later 9th century. These have allowed the scenes to be scrutinised for the first time, producing evidence of Viking sacrifice and an arrangement of military engagement related to the structure of early heroic poetry, supported by connections to the biblical King David.
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