da pressit muse

Na..I didnae hear
onythin back fae the pooers-that-be
aboot the Deerness banes wi
fund. I wid hae been
as good e-mailin mysel!

Ach ,I ken, but there's nae pint 'n
in beein too scunnert.
Nae doot,
they were a' far tae dieved wi wark
tae bither.

But mind, we jaloused at the time,
that the banes
were mair'n like human
and, fae the wie they hid been kisted
in da reid clay o de seabank,
alang, an east- wast line
, that they wir, the remains,
maist prabablie, o' a Christian body.

Aifter deein a bit o' dellin
on my ain accoont ower Easter.
I hid a chance-peek
at a braw new buik on sale in the toon
which hid an interestin paper
on the Medieval buryin grund
at Newark...aye just far
wi saw the banes erodin oot o' de bank;
and it seems mair'n likely
that the remains we fund thon gustery
day in April
belanged tae this steid, and
its associated Chapel.

Gie'n the swap
o'easterlies wiv hid o late they've
mair'n like been teen by the sea by noo.

Oniewie, the buiks ca'd:
"The world of the Orkneyinga Saga:the Broad-
Cloth Viking Trip";edited
by Olwyn Owen,
and the relevant chapter:
"Life and death in the time
of the sagas" is by Dr Theya
Molleson fae the Britsh Museum.

She taks a detailed and fascinating
luik at the forensic pathology
o the banes archaeologists
hiv recovered fae the Newark
steid o'er the years.
Life wisnae
easy for wir medieval
forefolks

Weel warth luikan a'thegither
for an updated account o the Islands
in the time o da Sagas.

If you're interested
in some o the ethical issues
relating tae the archaelogical
collection o human remains
there wis an intereestin program
on the wireless(Beeb R4)
the ither day...you may be able
to hear it again by
takkin this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/trenchwarfare




Tak care.

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Aikerness Haiku

bairn's kite
tullieton on a tow o
larksang