VEMS in the News

Professor Alex Sanmark and Dr Shane McLeod UHI are in the news discussing the Norse and the Sea project.

Featured in The Viking Herald, the research team at UHI Institute for Northern Studies Viking and Early Medieval Studies discuss the Norse and the Sea project examining the maritime cultural landscape of Scandinavian Scotland.

The project is investigating the maritime cultural landscape in Scandinavian Scotland (c. AD 790-1350), through an interdisciplinary approach using archaeological, written and toponymic evidence and address the overarching questions of connectivity and communication in Norse Scotland. The project builds on three main strands of research: existing research on the Norse settlement of Scandinavian Scotland, smaller research initiatives focusing on maritime Scotland, as well as research on maritime cultural landscape from Germany, Scandinavia and the wider North Atlantic.