70 years of Scottish National Accounts: 1948–2018
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive time series of historical National Accounts for Scotland (onshore and offshore) from 1948 to 2018. It includes a detailed breakdown by income component and industrial sector using methods that are forward and backward compatible.
Graeme Roy +2 more
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Genetic diversity and historical demography of underutilised goat breeds in North-Western Europe. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Manunza A +10 more
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Alternating predicates in Icelandic and German: a sign-based construction grammar account [PDF]
, 2014 A long-standing divide between Icelandic and German in the literature takes for granted that there are non-nominative subjects in Icelandic, while corresponding arguments in German have been analyzed as objects (Zaenen, Maling & Thráinsson 1985 ...
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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Two Major Groups in the Older Manuscript Tradition of Nítíða saga
, 2014 Overview of the relationships between the older manuscripts preserving the medieval Icelandic romance Nítíða saga, with a rough ...
Sheryl McDonald Werronen
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Mythological Names and dróttkvætt Formulae I: When is a Valkyrie Like a Spear? [PDF]
, 2014 This article explores patterns of language use in oral poetry within a variety of semantic formula. Such a formula may vary its surface texture in relation to phonic demands of the metrical environment in which it is realized.
Frog, -
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Archaeoentomological Research in the North Atlantic : Past, Present, and Future [PDF]
, 2014 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Bain, Allison +2 more
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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Garðaríki and Its Capital: Novgorod on the Mental Map of Medieval Scandinavians
Slovene, 2015 The paper presents data preserved in Old Norse-Icelandic literature on Hólmgarðr, a place that is traditionally identified with Novgorod. Hólmgarðr appears in these writings as a capital of Garðaríki (Old Rus’): all Russian princes familiar from these ...
Tatjana N. Jackson
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Historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Teixidor-Toneu I +6 more
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