Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Part 3 of my Hyperborean Odyssey is in Orkney and the Hebrides. I visited a well preserved stone age village on a remote Scottish island. Skara Brae is 5000 years old and one of the best preserved Neolithic settlements in the world.The video includes Orkney, the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides, Fingal's Cave and Ailsa Craig both steeped in Gaelic folklore, and the island of Iona where the Columban abbey was established by Irish monks until it was destroyed by Vikings.
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Sources on Neolithic Orkney:
-Gibaja et al 2024
sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240320160445.htm
-Marwick, E. (1975) The Stone of Odin. In Robertson, J. D. M. (1991) An Orkney Anthology: The Selected Works of Ernest Walker Marwick (Vol 1). Scottish Academic Press: Edinburgh.
-Madgwick et al 2019
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau6078
-Olalde et al 2019
science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6432/1230
-Shennan, S. “The First Farmers of Europe” (2018)
amzn.to/3we06al
-Sikora et al 2023
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.06.561165v1.full
Music in order:
Divkid - space trooper
Tasty Waves - National Sweetheart
Wodenwyrd - Wulfslaep
Hildigaldra - Dark Viking
Stewart Keller - Swan song
Kevin Beorn - Se Angelwer and thaet seaxewif
Aaron Kenny - Yonder hill and dale
Styrkr - Son of the wolf
Sjohof - Loki’s Meditation
Jimena Contreras - Mayan rites
Vanguard - a brighter dawn
Kevin MacLeod - Hidden past
Kevin MacLeod - Moorland
Lorcán Mac Mathúna - Dinseannchas
Stewart Keller - Lush landscapes
Kevin MacLeod - Rites
00:00 Intro
01:14 Orkney: The Ness of Brodgar
07:56 Orkney: Skara Brae
13:04 Why was Neolithic Orkney important?
15:27 Whale bones are useful
17:10 Gaels and Vikings in the Hebrides
18:51 Skye
21:54 Fingal’s cave
22:43 Iona - Christians vs Pagans
24:58 Ailsa Craig
25:58 Mull of Galloway ending
Part 3 of my Hyperborean Odyssey is in Orkney and the Hebrides. I visited a well preserved stone age village on a remote Scottish island. Skara Brae is 5000 years old and one of the best preserved Neolithic settlements in the world.The video includes Orkney, the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides, Fingal's Cave and Ailsa Craig both steeped in Gaelic folklore, and the island of Iona where the Columban abbey was established by Irish monks until it was destroyed by Vikings.
This channel depends on your support:
Patreon: patreon.com/survivethejive
All Links: https://linktr.ee/SurvivetheJive
Starting Heathenry: startingheathenry.thinkific.com
Sources on Neolithic Orkney:
-Gibaja et al 2024
sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240320160445.htm
-Marwick, E. (1975) The Stone of Odin. In Robertson, J. D. M. (1991) An Orkney Anthology: The Selected Works of Ernest Walker Marwick (Vol 1). Scottish Academic Press: Edinburgh.
-Madgwick et al 2019
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau6078
-Olalde et al 2019
science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6432/1230
-Shennan, S. “The First Farmers of Europe” (2018)
amzn.to/3we06al
-Sikora et al 2023
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.06.561165v1.full
Music in order:
Divkid - space trooper
Tasty Waves - National Sweetheart
Wodenwyrd - Wulfslaep
Hildigaldra - Dark Viking
Stewart Keller - Swan song
Kevin Beorn - Se Angelwer and thaet seaxewif
Aaron Kenny - Yonder hill and dale
Styrkr - Son of the wolf
Sjohof - Loki’s Meditation
Jimena Contreras - Mayan rites
Vanguard - a brighter dawn
Kevin MacLeod - Hidden past
Kevin MacLeod - Moorland
Lorcán Mac Mathúna - Dinseannchas
Stewart Keller - Lush landscapes
Kevin MacLeod - Rites
00:00 Intro
01:14 Orkney: The Ness of Brodgar
07:56 Orkney: Skara Brae
13:04 Why was Neolithic Orkney important?
15:27 Whale bones are useful
17:10 Gaels and Vikings in the Hebrides
18:51 Skye
21:54 Fingal’s cave
22:43 Iona - Christians vs Pagans
24:58 Ailsa Craig
25:58 Mull of Galloway ending
