Forgotten Ground Regained
Contributor: Colin Mackenzie
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Websites: auldnorse.wordpress.com and dgplacenames.wordpress.com
Colin Mackenzie received his PhD in Old Norse and Old English from the University of Glasgow in 2014. He began translating Old Norse and Old English texts into Scots in 2021 and writing original Scots dróttkvætt verse on moving to Orkney in 2023. The Tale o Thorstane Grue (Þorsteins þáttr skelks) and Anent Thoralf Skolmsson (Þórálfs drápa Skólmssonar) have been published in Lallans: The Journal o the Scots Leid Associe.
His work includes the modern Scots dróttkvætt poems The Brough o Birsay and Tynin a Wellie in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 5, Winter, 2025.
More than thirty of his modern Scots translations of Old Norse and Old English poetry and original dróttkvætt poems can be found on his blog, Auld Norse.
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