ORK Orkney

Bibliography (to see the full bibliography, click here)

Crawford, Barbara E., 2006, ‘Houseby, Harray and Knarston in the West Mainland of Orkney. Toponymic indicators of administrative authority?’, in Names through the Looking Glass: Festschrift in Honour of Gillian Fellows-Jensen, edd. P. Gammeltoft & B. Jørgenson (C. A. Reitzels Forlag A/S, Copenhagen), 21-44.
Marwick, H. 1952, Orkney Farm-Names, (Kirkwall).
Marwick, H., 1970, The Place-Names of Birsay.
Sandnes, Berit, 2003, Fra Starafjall til Starling Hill: Dannelse og utvikling av norrone stednavn pa Orknoyene, published PhD., NTNU Trondheim, Norway. ['From Starafjall to Starling Hill: formation and development of Norse place-names in Orkney', an in-depth study of Norse place-names of the parishes of Evie, Rendall and Firth on the west mainland of Orkney: see also S. Taylor's review in Northern Studies 39 (2005), 118-24; an English-language version of this book is planned].
Thomson, William P. L., 2007, ‘The Orkney Papar-names’, in West Over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement before 1300, edd. B. Ballin Smith, S. Taylor and G. Williams (Brill: Leiden and Boston), 515-37.
Thomson, William P. L., 2008, Orkney Land and People (The Orcadian Limited, Kirkwall Press) [2 chapters specifically about place-names: Chapter 1: Orkney Farm-names; Chapter 13: The Place-names of the Crofter Pioneer Fringe]