Dr Catherine Swift

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Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · Medieval Dublin · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

And essentially they found there's two groups of walruses, uh one in the North Atlantic around Greenland, and one in the Arctic, um around the Barents Sea.

And the Dublin Walrus

was fifty fifty.

It was half of it came fr from Greenland and half of it came from the Barents Sea of the four samples.

So that w that was really interesting and and and it does

I mean it doesn't necessarily mean we have sailors sailing out from Dublin and and going up to the Arctic with their icebreakers, but it i it it does mean that

at some point, whether through direct contact or more likely through a peddler type contact that the the

the ivory comes from Russia and goes to Scandinavia and from Scandinavia it goes to London and from London it comes to Dublin.

Um we are actually in contact with

Russian fur traders and and and and and and and Russian library traders.

Yeah, well but I I and that's

That that's where things like um the Friends of Medieval Joblin Symposium is such such an excellent area for debate because um there's an Irish word skeen, S.

I N G.

And in the dictionaries and uh the people who looked at it in the last generation, people like Miles Dillon, they just translated it as hide or leather.

And thinking about

colonial Ireland, um, both modern colonial Ireland in terms of our colonial attitudes to time periods, etcetera, or the Viking colony diaspora, whatever you want to call it, and the Anglo Norman diaspora, I it doesn't make sense that Irish would have to have a loan word for for leather.

We produce a lot of leather.

So when you delve into it, it's much more likely that schien is the word for fur.

And it it it reflects a a an importation.

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