ListenGaa/Sun-Gaa
/gɑː/
A patch of rainbow-coloured sky.
Further Reading
The Orkney Norn by Hugh Marwick [book, 1929]
Text
A mock-sun, parhelion; a patch of rainbow-coloured sky, the isolated stump of a rainbow. Regarded as a herald of bad weather.
Media
Wideford Hill, April 2023, Image: Aaron McCarthy
Birsay, Camera, rock, April 2023, Image: Aaron McCarthy
Norn selections, from 'The Orkney Norn' by Hugh Marwick, Image: Aaron McCarthy
Camera looking up, February 2023, Image: Aaron McCarthy
Birsay, April 2023, Image: Aaron McCarthy
Rock channel, Image: Aaron McCarthy
Holborn Head, Video: Aaron McCarthy
'The Orkney Norn' by Hugh Marwick, 1929, The Orkney Room, Image: Aaron McCarthy
Questions & Provocations
Is language within architecture destructive or constructive?
Aaron McCarthy
Does language within architecture work in the future tense as much as in the present tense?
Carl C.Z. Jonsson