Dr Elizabeth Boyle has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship for ‘Experienced Researchers’ in the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s M4HUMAN programme. Dr Boyle will spend two years in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork , conducting research on ‘The End of the World? Apocalyptic Expectation in Eleventh-Century Ireland’.

In celebration of the discovery of a Viking boat burial in Ardnamurchan in the highlands of Scotland, Dr Elizabeth Rowe reads a suitable verse of Skaldic poetry  (BBC Radio 4, ‘The World at One’ 19 October 2011).