A Stromness Winter Oh sky how you tease us, forever changing our view,Hoy slipping in and out of sight, don’t hide its beauty from us. Oh dark how you envelop us, allowing us only moments of light,Rendering the day over unreasonably early, we crave your farewell. Oh sea how you tempt us, occasionally calm, so […]
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Eternal Eternal Long gliding wings the sea-world will girdle: Strong beat along, upbeat on a thermal; They dip and they dive as waves crest in time, Then flash from the spume and free from the rime, Shrieking off to the south they gather speed – Migration enforces their raging need Don’t visit! – Then comes
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1.Ravie Hill As well as being real rock, sea and soil,– well, what place isn’t, unless landlocked,and we’d laugh at our father, so loyalto the mighty cliffs and modest crofts,the wind-worn hills and tireless toilof ancestors (just to keep warm, we scoffed)and pleaded to fly home: even the localscall you incomer, Dad, get with the
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This Land What is this land to me, what is Westray, Papa Westray, what is Fara, Cava, what is Flotta with its flame? What is Hoy – home of selkies and whitemaas, and music scored on Rackwick’s cliffs? What is this land to me, what is the Ring of Brodgar where peedie hands fingered time?
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Whitemaas wingan, lavros singan Long curvan beaches o’ bonny white sand Seas in shinan sun, waves roll in one by one Twinklan lochs amang green fields they stand. So this is wurs, what better place tae be Than in this bonny land in a new century. Far fae crowds, aye here wur happy This is
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Wide open vistas as far as the eye can roam. Breathtaking beauty at every turn, whatever the weather. A legacy of ancient archaeology and history, mapping these islands with a picture of how people lived through the centuries
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copyright Caterina Turroni and Lion TV Professor Mary Beard To Open Ness Of Brodgar Exhibition This summer’s flagship Ness of Brodgar exhibition at the Orkney Museum will be officially opened by Professor Mary Beard next month. Mary is an Emerita Professor and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS, with
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A calculated history Rotula Arithmetica early calculator inscribed Sir Archibald Stewart of Burray, made Edinburgh 1700 Tucked away in one section of the large case that runs down the centre of the Merchant Lairds Gallery is an unassuming object which deserves more attention. It is a brass disc, around 6 inches (15.3 cm) in diameter,
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A quick note to advise Kirbuster Museum will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday 27 March, for more work on the new shop. And it will also be closed Sunday 31 March. For those visiting or new to Orkney, Kirbuster Museum is the last un-restored example of a traditional ‘Firehoose’ in Northern Europe. The house has a
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The tradition behind the Orkney Cog In the past all those important life events, birth, marriage and death, were steeped in rituals. If things were not done in a certain way, then that could have an impact on the future success and happiness of that person or couple. All the rituals that went with a
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