GHOSTS FROM THE DEEP

September 12, 2017 → 2:00 pm ─ 3:00 pm

| £2 – £4

Polar historian Dr Maria Pia Casarini tells of the discovery of Sir John Franklin’s ships Erebus and Terror and the implications for Arctic history, and looks back at Lady Franklin’s 1849 visit to Orkney and Shetland on the quest for information about the expedition’s fate.

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A song about ancient Ireland, composed and sung by Lorcán Mac Mathúna, accompanying dramatised scenes from the battle of Clontarf, fought on Good Friday 1014. Irish and Icelandic accounts describe how the army of the Irish High King Brian Boru defeated a Norse invasion force led by Earl Sigurd of Orkney. The state of the tide played a role in the battle, enabling the Norse ships to land in the early morning but later cutting off the retreating Norsemen from them. A 19th-century calculation of the tides in the area confirmed the chroniclers’ details.