| | | Flag of Orkney (unofficial) | The Orkney Islands are one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and form a traditional county and Lieutenancy area. Orkney consists of about 70 small islands 16 km north of Caithness in northern Scotland. The largest island in the group is known as "The Mainland"; about 20 are inhabited in total. Island council area of Scotland. ...
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Kirkwall is the largest town and capital of the Orkney Islands, in northern Scotland. ...
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Alistair Morrison Carmichael (born July 15, 1965) is a Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of Parliament for the Scottish seat of Orkney and Shetland. ...
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The Right Honourable Jim Wallace QC (born August 25, 1954 in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway) is a Scottish politician, first leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, first Deputy First Minister of the Scottish Executive, and and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Orkney. ...
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Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Scottish Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
The traditional counties of Scotland are historic and cutural divisions of Scotland. ...
The Lieutenancy areas of Scotland are the areas used for ceremonial purposes such as Lord Lieutenancy. ...
Caithness (Gallaibh in Gaelic) is a traditional county and former administrative county within the Highland area of Scotland. ...
Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Scottish Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
Orkney's administrative capital is Kirkwall on The Mainland. Home to the St Magnus' Cathedral, it has about 7,000 inhabitants and a large port. The only other burgh is Stromness at the western end of The Mainland, with a population of only about 2,000. The third largest settlement is St Margaret's Hope, on South Ronaldsay. Kirkwall is the largest town and capital of the Orkney Islands, in northern Scotland. ...
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall is the cathedral in the capital of Orkney in Scotland. ...
Burgh can refer to the following: Burgh (pronounced burruh) - A highly autonomous unit of local government in Scotland, with rights to representation in the Parliament of Scotland, in use from at least the 9th century until their abolition in 1975 when a new regional structure of local government was introduced...
Stromness is the second-largest town in the Orkney Islands and is located on the southwestern edge of the mainland of Orkney. ...
St Margarets Hope is the third largest town in Orkney after Kirkwall and Stromness with a population of around 550. ...
Islands The largest island in Orkney is known as The Mainland. Other islands can be classified as north or south of The Mainland. The islands north of The Mainland are known collectively as The North Isles, those to the south as The South Isles. The remote Sule Skerry and Sule Stack lie around 60km west of the archipelago, but form part of the council area. The Mainland, Orkney shown within The Orkney Islands The Mainland is the main island of Orkney, Scotland. ...
Sule Skerry is an extremely remote skerry in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. ...
Sule Stack or Stack Skerry is an extremely remote volcanic stack in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. ...
The North Isles The northern group of islands is the most extensive and consists of a large number of moderately sized islands, linked to the Mainland by ferries. Most of the islands described as "holms" are very small. - Auskerry
- Calf of Eday
- Damsay
- Eday, Egilsay, Eynhallow
- Faray
- Gairsay
- Helliar Holm, Holm of Faray, Holm of Huip, Holm of Papay, Holm of Scockness
- Kili Holm
- Linga Holm
- Muckle Green Holm
- North Ronaldsay
- Papa Stronsay, Papa Westray
- Rousay, Rusk Holm
- Sanday, Shapinsay, Stronsay, Sweyn Holm
- Westray, Wyre
Auskerry is a small island in the east of the Orkney Islands group in Scotland. ...
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Eday shown within Orkney Islands Eday is an island in Orkney, Scotland. ...
Egilsay shown within Orkney Islands Egilsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, lying east of Rousay. ...
Eynhallow is a small island, part of the Orkney Islands Scotland. ...
Faray is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying between Eday and Westray. ...
Gairsay shown within Orkney Islands Gairsay is an island in Orkney, Scotland. ...
Linga Holm is a tiny uninhabited island (roughly extending to 57ha or 141 acres) situated west of the island of Stronsay. ...
North Ronaldsay shown within Orkney Islands North Ronaldsay is the northernmost of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. ...
Papa Stronsay shown within Orkney Islands Papa Stronsay is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying north east of Stronsay. ...
Papa Westray shown within Orkney Islands Papa Westray, also known as Papay, is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, with a population of around sixty people. ...
Rousay shown within Orkney Islands Rousay (from Old Norse Hrólfs-øy meaning Rolfs Island) is a small but hilly island about 3 km (2 mi) off the north side of Orkneys Mainland, which has been nicknamed the Egypt of the north due to its tremendous archaeological diversity...
Sanday shown within Orkney Islands Sanday is one of the inhabited islands in the Orkney Islands group off the northern coast of Scotland. ...
Shapinsay shown within Orkney Islands Shapinsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. ...
Stronsay shown within Orkney Islands Stronsay is an island in Orkney, Scotland. ...
Westray shown within Orkney Islands Westray is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, with a population of around 700 people. ...
Wyre shown within Orkney Islands Wyre is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, lying south east of Rousay. ...
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The South Isles The southern group of islands surrounds Scapa Flow. Hoy is the highest of the Orkney Isles, while South Ronaldsay and Burray are linked to the Mainland by the Churchill Barriers. The Pentland Skerries lie further south, close to the Scottish mainland. Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. ...
The Pentland Skerries are a group of four uninhabited islands lying in the Pentland Firth, north east of Duncansby Head and south of South Ronaldsay in Scotland. ...
Burray shown within Orkney Islands Burray is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. ...
Copinsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, lying off the east coast of the Orkney Mainland. ...
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Graemsay shown within Orkney Islands Graemsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland with a population of around thirty people. ...
Hoy shown within Orkney Islands Hoy (from Old Norse há-øy meaning high island) is one of the Orkney Islands. ...
Lamb Holm is a small island in Orkney, Scotland. ...
South Ronaldsay shown within Orkney Islands South Ronaldsay is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. ...
Switha is a small island in Orkney, Scotland south of Flotta, used for grazing sheep. ...
The island of Swona (Old Norse for “Swains Islandâ€) is the northern of the two islands situated in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness on the Scottish mainland. ...
Geography The Pentland Firth separates Orkney from the mainland of Scotland. The firth is 11 km wide between Brough Ness on the island of South Ronaldsay and Duncansbay Head in Caithness. PD image, from Swedish Wikipedia This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
The Pentland Firth, which is actually more of a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness, which is in the far north of the Highland area of Scotland. ...
Orkney lies between 58° 41' and 59° 24' North, and 2° 22' and 3° 26' West, measures 80 km from Northeast to Southwest and 47 km from East to West, and covers 973 km². Excepting on the west coasts of the larger islands, which present rugged cliff scenery remarkable both for beauty and for colouring, the group lies somewhat low and is of bleak aspect.
The highest hills are on Hoy. The only other islands containing heights of any importance are The Mainland, with Ward Hill (268 m), and Wideford Hill and Rousay. Nearly all of the islands possess lochs (lakes), and The Loch of Harray and The Loch of Stenness on The Mainland attain noteworthy proportions. The rivers are merely streams draining the high land. Excepting on the west fronts of the Mainland, Hoy and Rousay, the coastline of the islands is deeply indented, and the islands themselves are divided from each other by straits generally called "sounds" or "firths", though off the north-east of Hoy the designation "Bring Deeps" is used, south of The Mainland is Scapa Flow and to the south-west of Eday is found the Fall of Warness. Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. ...
The very names of the islands indicate their nature: the terminal "a" or "ay" represents the Norse ey, meaning "island", which is scarcely disguised even in the words "Pomona" (an older alternative name for The Mainland) and "Hoy". The islets are usually styled "holms" and the isolated rocks "skerries".
The tidal currents, or races, or "roost" (as some of them are called locally, from the Icelandic) off many of the isles run with enormous velocity, and whirlpools are of frequent occurrence, and strong enough at times to prove a source of danger to small craft.
The charm of Orkney does not lie in their ordinary physical features, so much as in beautiful atmospheric effects, extraordinary examples of light and shade, and rich coloration of cliff and sea.
The islands are notable for the lack of trees, which is partly accounted for by the amount of wind (although the climate in general is temperate). The formation of peat is evidence that this was not always the case, and deliberate deforestation is believed to have taken place at some stage prior to the Neolithic, the use of stone in settlements such as Skara Brae being evidence of the lack of availability of timber for building. Peat in Lewis, Scotland Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetable matter. ...
The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ...
Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located in the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of mainland Orkney (off northern Scotland). ...
Most of the land is still taken up by farms, and agriculture is by far the most important sector of the economy, with fishing also being a major occupation. Orkney exports beef, cheese, whisky, beer, fish and seafood. Beef is meat obtained from a bovine. ...
Cheeseit rulessssss hi guy hay greg, cheese rules foreverererererer is a solid food made from the curdled milk of various mammals—most commonly cows but sometimes goats, sheep, or buffalo. ...
Scotch whisky Whisky (or whiskey) is an alcoholic beverage distilled from grain, often including malt, which has then been aged in wooden barrels. ...
A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top. ...
Groups Conodonta Hyperoartia Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Pteraspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Thelodonti Anaspida Cephalaspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Galeaspida Pituriaspida Osteostraci Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Placodermi Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii Osteichthyes (bony fish) Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnoi (lungfish) A fish is a poikilothermic (cold-blooded)* water-dwelling...
Seafood in Brussels, Belgium Seafood is any sea animal that is served as food or is suitable for eating. ...
Geology All the islands of this group are built up entirely of Old Red Sandstone. As in the neighbouring mainland county of Caithness, these rocks rest upon the metamorphic rocks of the eastern schists, as may be seen on The Mainland, where a narrow strip is exposed between Stromness and Inganess, and again in the small island of Graemsay; they are represented by grey gneiss and granite. Red Sandstone in Wyoming Sandstone is an arenaceous sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ...
Caithness (Gallaibh in Gaelic) is a traditional county and former administrative county within the Highland area of Scotland. ...
Metamorphic rock is the result of the transformation of a pre-existing rock type, the protolith, in a process called metamorphism, which means change in form (from the Greek words meta, change, and morphe, form). The protolith is subjected to extreme heat (greater than 150 degrees Celsius) and pressure causing...
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Banded gneiss with dike of granite orthogneiss Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of rock formed by high grade regional metamorphic processes from preexisting formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks. ...
Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ...
The upper division of the Old Red Sandstone is found only on Hoy, where it forms the Old Man of Hoy and neighbouring cliffs on the northwest coast. The Old Man of Hoy presents a characteristic section, for it exhibits a thick pile of massive, current-bedded red sandstones, resting, near the foot of the pinnacle, upon a thin bed of amygdaloidal porphyrite, which in its turn lies uncomfortably upon steeply inclined flagstones. This bed of volcanic rock may be followed northward in the cliffs, and it may be noticed that it thickens considerably in that direction. The Old Man of Hoy is a 460 foot stack of red sandstone perched on a plinth of igneous basalt, close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. ...
Red Sandstone in Wyoming Sandstone is an arenaceous sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ...
This article is about volcanoes in geology. ...
The Lower Old Red Sandstone is represented by well-bedded flagstones over most of the islands; in the south of The Mainland these are faulted against an overlying series of massive red sandstones, but a gradual passage from the flagstones to the sandstones may be followed from Westray southeastwards into Eday. A strong synclinal fold traverses Eday and Shapinsay, the axis being North and South. Near Haco's Ness in Shapinsay there is a small exposure of amygdaloidal diabase, which is (of course) older than that on Hoy. Red Sandstone in Wyoming Sandstone is an arenaceous sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ...
Diabase is a mafic, holocrystalline, igneous rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro. ...
Many indications of ice action are found on these islands; striated surfaces are to be seen on the cliffs in Eday and Westray, in Kirkwall Bay and on Stennie Hill in Eday; boulder clay, with marine shells, and with many boulders of rocks foreign to the islands (chalk, oolitic limestone, flint, etc), which must have been brought up from the region of Moray Firth, rests upon the old strata in many places. Local moraines are found in some of the valleys in The Mainland and Hoy. Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 μm (micrometres) in diameter. ...
The Needles, part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation Chalk is a soft, white, porous form of limestone composed of the mineral calcium carbonate. ...
Pebble beach made up of flint nodules eroded out of the nearby chalk cliffs, Cape Arkona, Rügen Flint (or flintstone) is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline silica rock with a glassy appearance. ...
Moraine is the general term for debris of all sorts originally transported by glaciers or ice sheets that have since melted away. ...
Climate The climate is remarkably temperate and equable for such a northerly latitude. The average temperature for the year is 8°C (46°F), for winter 4°C (39°F) and for summer 12°C (54°F). The winter months are January, February and March, the last being the coldest. Spring never begins before April, and it is the middle of June before the heat grows genial. September is frequently the finest month, and at the end of October or the beginning of November occurs the peedie (or little) summer or milder weather.
The average annual rainfall varies from 85 cm to 94 cm. Fogs occur during summer and early autumn, and furious gales may be expected four or five times in the year, when the crash of the Atlantic waves is audible for 30 km. The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ...
To tourists, one of the fascinations of the islands is their nightless summers. On the longest day, the sun rises at 03:00 and sets at 21:25 — and darkness is unknown, it being possible to read at midnight. Winter, however, is long and depressing. On the shortest day the sun rises at 09:10 and sets at 15:17.
The soil generally is a sandy loam or a strong but friable clay, and very fertile. Large quantities of seaweed as well as lime and marl are available for manure. Loam is soil composed of sand, silt, and clay, with particles of various sizes, evenly mixed. ...
Seaweed covered rocks in the UK Phycologists consider seaweed to refer any of a large number of marine benthic algae that are multicellular, macrothallic (large-bodied), and thus differentiated from most algae that tend towards microscopic size (Smith, 1944). ...
Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as lime, quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. ...
Marl is a material commonly used as fertilizer. ...
Economy The woollen trade once promised to reach considerable dimensions, but towards the end of the 18th century was superseded by the linen (for which flax came to be largely grown); and when this in turn collapsed before the products of the mills of Dundee, Dunfermline and Glasgow, straw-plaiting was taken up, though only to be killed in due time by the competition of the south. The kelp industry was formerly of at least minor importance. Long and short hair wool at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, AR Wool is the fiber derived from the hair of domesticated animals, usually sheep. ...
Torn linen cloth, recovered from the Dead Sea Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. ...
Binomial name Linum usitatissimum Linnaeus. ...
For other uses see Dundee (disambiguation) Dundee is Scotlands fourth largest city, population 154 674 (2001), situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay. ...
Dunfermline (in Gaelic, Dùn Phà rlain), is a town and royal burgh in Fife, Scotland that sits on high ground 3 miles from the shore of the Firth of Forth, northwest of Edinburgh. ...
Glasgows location in Scotland Glasgow (or Glaschu in Gaelic) is Scotlands largest city, situated on the River Clyde in the countrys west central lowlands. ...
Families Alariaceae Chordaceae Laminariaceae Lessoniaceae Phyllariaceae Pseudochordaceae Kelp are large seaweeds, belonging to the brown algae and classified in the order Laminariales. ...
For several centuries the Dutch practically monopolised the herring fishery, but when their supremacy was destroyed by the salt duty, the Orcadians failed to seize the opportunity thus presented, and George Barry (died 1805) recorded that in his day the fisheries were almost totally neglected. The industry, however, revived, concentrating on herring, cod and ling, but also catching lobsters and crabs. Family Clupeidae This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Species Gadus morhua Gadus macrocephalus Gadus ogac This article is about codfish; for other meanings, see COD. Cod is the common name for the genus Gadus of fish, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety of other fishes. ...
Ling can refer to more than one thing: Ling (Molva molva) is a freshwater fish related to burbot. ...
Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ...
Sections Dromiacea Raninoida Heterotremata Thoracotremata The term crab is often applied to several different groups of short (nose to tail) decapods with thick exoskeletons, but only members of the Brachyura are true crabs; other taxa, such as hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, king crabs, and horseshoe crabs are, despite superficial similarities...
In recent years, the Orkney economy has seen growth in areas other than the traditional agriculture, livestock farming, and fishing. These include tourism; food and beverage manufacture; jewellery, knitware, and other crafts production; construction; and oil transportation through the Flotta oil terminal. Public services also play a significant role. Categories: Stub | Orkney Islands ...
Communications Frequent ferry services operate on the following routes: Most of the larger islands have their own airfield or airstrip. Loganair operates regular services to six islands from Kirkwall. These include the shortest scheduled air service in the world, between the islands of Westray and Papa Westray. The flight is scheduled at two minutes' duration but can take less than a minute if the wind is in the right direction. Lerwick is the only town and main port of the Shetland Islands, found more than 100 miles off the north coast of Scotland. ...
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Thurso is a small town in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. ...
Location within the British Isles. ...
The Pentland Firth, which is actually more of a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness, which is in the far north of the Highland area of Scotland. ...
Media The islands are currently served by two weekly local newspapers, Orkney Today and The Orcadian, both published every Thursday. In addition, a local radio station operates, with a second hoping to return to the isles in the near future. Radio Orkney, the local opt-out of BBC Radio Scotland, broadcasts twice daily, with local news and entertainment. The Superstation Orkney, Orkney's first commercial radio station, will begin broadcasting on 105.4FM in late 2005 or early 2006. The station was granted a community radio licence in September 2005 by Ofcom. BBC Radio Scotland is the BBCs national radio network for Scotland, broadcasting since 1978 on FM and medium wave. ...
The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UKs communications regulator. ...
Heritage The famous Neolithic sites of Skara Brae and Maes Howe are located on Mainland. These have both been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ...
Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located in the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of mainland Orkney (off northern Scotland). ...
Maes Howe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney (off northern Scotland). ...
UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1946. ...
Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...
Viking settlers comprehensively occupied Orkney, and the islands became a possession of Norway until being given to Scotland during the 15th century as part of a dowry settlement. Evidence of the Viking presence is widespread, and includes the settlement at the Brough of Birsay, the vast majority of place names, and runic inscriptions at Maes Howe and other ancient sites. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Scottish Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
(14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ...
The Brough of Birsay is a small (210,000 m²) tidal island off the north west coast of The Mainland of Orkney, in the parish of Birsay. ...
In geography and cartography, a toponym is a place name, a geographical name, a proper name of locality, region, or some other part of Earths surface or its natural or artificial feature. ...
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History Main article: History of the Orkney Islands // The Picts The original inhabitants of the Orkney Islands were Picts, evidence of whose occupation still exists in numerous weems or underground houses, chambered mounds, barrows or burial mounds, brochs or round towers, and stone circles and standing stones. ...
The original inhabitants were Picts, evidence of whose occupation still exists in numerous "weems" or underground houses, chambered mounds, barrows or burial mounds, "brochs" or round towers, and stone circles and standing stones. Such implements as have survived are of the rudest description, and include quern-stones for grinding materials including grain, stone whorls and bone combs employed in primitive forms of woollen manufacture, and specimens of simple pottery ware. PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. ...
Quern-stones are a pair of stone tools for hand grinding a wide variety of materials. ...
Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). ...
The Romans were aware of, and probably circumnavigated, the Orkney Islands, which they called "Orcades". There is evidence that they traded, either directly or indirectly, with the inhabitants. However, they made no attempt to occupy the islands. The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ...
If, as seems likely, the Dalriadic Scots established a footing in the islands towards the beginning of the 6th century, their success was short-lived, and the Picts regained power and kept it until dispossessed by the Norsemen in the 9th century. In the wake of the Scots incursionists followed the Celtic missionaries about 565. They were companions of Saint Columba and their efforts to convert the folk to Christianity seem to have impressed the popular imagination, for several islands bear the epithet "Papa" in commemoration of the preachers. Dalriada or Dál Riata (as it was called in Ireland) was the kingdom of the Scotti, who spread from eastern Ulster to Argyll and eventually gave their name to Scotland. ...
The Dalriada Scots originated from Ireland, from the north of the now-called countyAntrim. ...
(5th century — 6th century — 7th century — other centuries) Events The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Persia by the Persian Shah Khosrau I. Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland) Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. ...
Norsemen (the Norse) is the indigenous or ancient name for the people of Scandinavia, including (but not limited to) the Vikings. ...
This earthenware dish was made in 9th century Iraq. ...
Celtic Christianity, or the Celtic Church, is Christianity as it was first received and practised by communities with Celtic backgrounds that observed certain practices divergent from those in the rest of Europe. ...
A mission literally means something that is sent, from the Latin word missum, sent. Thus we may refer to space exploration expeditions as space missions, or to a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory as a diplomatic mission. Christian missions are movements or outposts of Christian proselytism. ...
Events January 22 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. ...
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Vikings having made the islands the headquarters of their buccaneering expeditions (carried out indifferently against their own Norway and the coasts and isles of Scotland), Harold Hårfagre ("Fair Hair") subdued the rovers in 875 and annexed both Orkney and Shetland to Norway. They remained under the rule of Norse earls until 1231, when the line of the jarls became extinct. In that year the earldom of Caithness was granted to Magnus, second son of the Earl of Angus, whom the king of Norway apparently confirmed in the title. Recent studies from the field of population genetics reveal a significant percentage of Norse ethnic heritage -- up to one third of the Y chromosomes on the islands are derived from western Norwegian sources, as opposed to the Shetlands, where over half the male lineage is Norse. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Harald Fairhair (Old Norse:Haraldr hinn hárfagri, Icelandic:Haraldur hinn hárfagri, Norwegian:Harald Hårfagre) (c. ...
Events December 29 - Charles the Bald, king of west Danes capture Lindisfarne and arrive in Cambridge. ...
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An Earl as a member of the British peerage ranks below a Marquess and above a Viscount. ...
Events Ardengus becomes bishop of Florence. ...
The title of Earl of Angus is an ancient one in the Peerage of Scotland, currently held by the Duke of Hamilton. ...
Some jarls of Orkney:
In 1468 Orkney and Shetland were pledged by Christian I of Denmark and Norway for the payment of the dowry of his daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland, and as the money was never paid, their connection with the crown of Scotland has been perpetual. In 1471 James bestowed the castle and lands of Ravenscraig in Fife on William, earl of Orkney, in exchange for all his rights to the earldom of Orkney, which, by act of parliament, passed on February 20, 1472, was annexed to the Scottish crown. Ragnvald Eysteinsson, The Wise (830-890) (Old Norse: Rögnvaldr Mærajarl), Earl of Sunnmøre, Nordmøre and Romsdal, was born in Maer Nord-Trøndelag, Norway and died at the Orkney Islands. ...
Einar Ragnvaldson, Turf-Einar (d. ...
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Events Births Charles I of Savoy February 29 - Pope Paul III Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, dramatist and composer Deaths February 3 - Johannes Gutenberg, publisher Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg, Albanias national hero Gennadius II, Patriarch of Constantinople Joanot Martorell, author of Tirant lo Blanc Categories: 1468 ...
Christian I of Denmark (1426 – 1481), Danish monarch and union king of Denmark (1448 – 1481), Norway (1450 – 1481) and Sweden (1457 – 1464), under the Kalmar Union. ...
James III of Scotland (1451/ 1452 – June 11, 1488), son of James II and Mary of Gueldres, created Duke of Rothesay at birth, king of Scotland from 1460 to 1488. ...
This article is about the year 1471, not the BT caller ID service accessible by dialling 1-4-7-1. ...
Fife (Fìobh in Gaelic) is a unitary council region of Scotland situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. ...
An aerial view of Parliament of India at New Delhi. ...
February 20 is the 51st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Events February 20 - The Orkneys and Shetlands are annexed to the crown of Scotland Discovery of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by João Vaz Corte-Real. ...
The Crown is a term which is used to separate the government authority and property of the state in a kingdom from any personal influence and private assets held by the current Monarch. ...
In 1564 Lord Robert Stewart, natural son of James V of Scotland, who had visited Kirkwall twenty-four years before, was made sheriff of Orkney and Shetland, and received possession of the estates of the udallers; in 1581 he was created earl of Orkney by James IV(?), the charter being ratified ten years later to his son Patrick, but in 1615 the earldom was again annexed to the crown. Events March 8 — Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death June 22 — Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World September 10 — The Battle of Kawanakajima Ottoman Turks invade Malta Modern pencil becomes common in England Conquistadors crossed the Pacific Spanish founded a colony...
Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Sir Robert Stewart (composer) Robert L. Stewart (astronaut) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
James V (April 10, 1512 – December 14, 1542) was king of Scotland (September 9, 1513 – December 14, 1542). ...
Sheriff is both a political and a legal office held under English common law, Scots law or American common law, or the person who holds such office. ...
Events January 16 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism April 4 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. July 26 - The Northern Netherlands proclaim their independence from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration. ...
James IV (March 17, 1473 – September 9, 1513) was king of Scotland from 1488 to 1513. ...
Events June 2 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. ...
The islands were the rendezvous of Montrose's expedition in 1650 which culminated in his imprisonment and death. During the Protectorate they were visited by a detachment of Cromwell's troops, who initiated the inhabitants into various industrial arts and new methods of agriculture. // Events June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. ...
The Protectorate in English history refers specifically to the English government of 1653 to 1659 under the direct control of Oliver Cromwell, who assumed the title of Lord Protector of the newly declared Commonwealth of England (later the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland) after the English Civil War. ...
Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657. ...
In 1707 the islands were granted to the earl of Morton in mortgage, redeemable by the Crown on payment of 30,000 pounds, and subject to an annual feu-duty of 500 pounds; but in 1766 his estates were sold to Sir Lawrence Dundas, ancestor of the Earls of Zetland. Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal March 26 - The Act of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. ...
Morton is the name of several. ...
1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The Marquess of Zetland (Shetland) is a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom created for Laurence Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland along with the title Earl of Ronaldshay on 22 August 1892. ...
In early times both the archbishop of Hamburg and the archbishop of York disputed with the Norwegians ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the Orkneys and the right of consecrating bishops; but ultimately the Norwegian bishops, the first of whom was William the Old (consecrated in 1102), continued the canonical succession. The see remained vacant from 1580 to 1606, and from 1638 till the Restoration, and, after the accession of William III, the episcopacy was finally abolished (1697), although many of the clergy refused to conform. Hamburg is Germanys second largest city (after Berlin) and, with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ...
York is a city in northern England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. ...
Events Valencia is captured by the Almoravids. ...
Events March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. ...
Events January 27 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins ending in their execution on January 31 May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shusky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri December 26 - Shakespeares King Lear performed in court Storm buries a village of St Ismails near...
Events March 29 - Swedish colonists establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden. ...
The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ...
William III of England (14 November 1650–8 March 1702; also known as William II of Scotland and William of Orange) was a Dutch aristocrat and the Holy Roman Empires Prince of Orange from his birth, King of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and King of Scotland...
Events September 20 - The Treaty of Ryswick December 2 – St Pauls Cathedral opened in London Peter the Great travels in Europe officially incognito as artilleryman Pjotr Mikhailov Use of palanquins increases in Europe Christopher Polhem starts Swedens first technical school. ...
The toponymy of the Orkneys is wholly Norse, and the Norse tongue, at last extinguished by the constant influx of settlers from Scotland, lingered until the end of the 18th century. Readers of Scott's Pirate will remember the frank contempt which Magnus Troil expressed for the Scots, and his opinions probably accurately reflected the general Norse feeling on the subject. When the islands were given as security for the princess's dowry, there seems reason to believe that it was intended to redeem the pledge, because it was then stipulated that the Norse system of government and the law of Saint Olaf should continue to be observed in Orkney and Shetland. Thus the udal succession and mode of land tenure (that is, absolute freehold as distinguished from feudal tenure) lingered to some extent, and the remaining udallers held their lands and passed them on without written title. Toponymy is the taxonomic study of place names, their origins and their meanings. ...
(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ...
Olav II Haraldsson ( 995 – 1030), king from 1015–1028, called during his lifetime the Fat and afterwards known as Saint Olaf, was born in the year in which Olaf Tryggvesson came to Norway. ...
Fee simple, also known as fee simple absolute or allodial, is a term of art in common law. ...
Feudalism comes from the Late Latin word feudum, itself borrowed from a Germanic root *fehu, a commonly used term in the Middle Ages which means fief, or land held under certain obligations by feodati. ...
During World War I and World War II, the Royal Navy had a major base at Scapa Flow. The base was closed in 1956. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...
World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. ...
1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In the Arthurian legend, Orkney is the home to King Lot, Sir Gareth, Sir Gaheris, Sir Gawaine, and Sir Agravain. Sir Gareth was a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian Legend. ...
Language The older Norn was replaced by Lowland Scots which in turn is being replaced by Scottish English. Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken on the Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland. ...
Scots (or Lallans, meaning Lowlands), often Lowland Scots to distinguish it from the Gaelic of the Highlands, is a language used in Scotland, as well as parts of Northern Ireland and border areas of the Republic of Ireland, where it is known in official circles as Ulster Scots or Ullans...
Diagram showing the geographical locations of selected languages and dialects of the British Isles. ...
Orcadian people Some well-known Orcadians: - Magnus Erlendsson (Saint Magnus) (c1070 – c1117), Earl of Orkney c1105 – 1117
- Rognvald Kali Kolssson (Saint Rognvald) (c1103 – 1158), Earl of Orkney 1136 – 1158
- James Atkine (1613 – 1687), bishop first of Moray and afterwards of Galloway
- Murdoch McKenzie (died 1797), the hydrographer
- Malcolm Laing (1762 – 1818), author of the History of Scotland from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms
- William Sinclair (1766 – 1818), Chief Factor at the Hudsons Bay Company
- Mary Brunton (1778 – 1818), author of Self-Control, Discipline and other novels
- Samuel Laing (1780 – 1868), author of A Residence in Norway, and translator of the Heimskringla, the Icelandic chronicle of the kings of Norway
- Thomas Stewart Traill (1781 – 1862), professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University and editor of the 8th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Samuel Laing (1812 – 1897), chairman of the London, Brighton. & South Coast railway, and introducer of the system of "parliamentary" trains with fares of one penny a mile
- Dr John Rae (1813 – 1893), the Arctic explorer
- William Balfour Baikie (1825 – 1864), the African traveller
- Edwin Muir (1887 – 1959), author and poet
- Stanley Cursiter (1887 – 1976), artist
- Eric Linklater (1899 – 1974), novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist, and poet
- George Mackay Brown (1921 – 1996), poet, author, playwright.
- Cameron Stout, winner of the fourth series of the reality TV show Big Brother
- Luke Sutherland, writer of novels Jelly Roll, Sweatmeat and Venus As A Boy
This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain. Saint Magnus was the first earl of Orkney to bear that name, and ruled from 1108 to 1117. ...
Malcolm Laing (1762 - 1818), was a country gentleman in Orkney. ...
William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, 3rd Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin (1410-1484) was a Scottish nobleman and the builder Rosslyn Chapel. ...
Mary Brunton (1778 - 1818), novelist, daughter of Col. ...
Samuel Laing was a Scottish writer, born 1780, died 1868. ...
Dr. Thomas Stewart Traill (October 29, 1781- July 30, 1862) was a Scottish professor of medical jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh. ...
Jurisprudence is the scientific study of law, including: Legal history, including legal historiography and hermeneutics; Legal philosophy; Legal science, e. ...
Samuel Laing was a Scottish writer, born 1780, died 1868. ...
John Rae (September 30, 1813 - July 22, 1893) was a Scottish Arctic explorer. ...
The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border The Arctic is the area around the Earths North Pole. ...
William Balfour Baikie (August 21, 1824—November 30, 1864) was a Scottish explorer, naturalist and philologist, eldest son of Captain John Baikie, R.N,, was born at Kirkwall, Orkney. ...
Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous after Asia. ...
Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 - 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet and novelist. ...
Scottish artist born in the Orkney Islands in 1887. ...
Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-1974) was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, also short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history. ...
George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996), was a poet, author and dramatist. ...
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Big Brother is a TV reality show shown on Channel 4 in which a number of contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run. ...
A jelly roll (known outside of the United States as Swiss roll) is a cylindrical cake containing jelly or jam. ...
Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) represents the sum of human knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century; indeed, it was advertised as such. ...
The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
See also Orkneyinga saga, Trowe, Udal Law The Orkneyinga saga (also called the History of the Earls of Orkney) is an unique historical narrative of the history of the Orkney Islands from their capture by the Norwegian king in the 9th century onwards until about 1200 AD. The saga was written around 1200 AD by an unknown...
A Trowe is a mythical creature of the Orkney Islands, which is based on the Scandinavian troll. ...
Udal law is a near-defunct Norse derived legal system, which was formerly found in the Shetland islands and Orkney. ...
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Perthshire is an traditional county in central Scotland, which extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. ...
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Ross-shire (Siorrachd Rois in Gaelic), a traditional county of Scotland, borders on Sutherland, Cromartyshire (of which it contains many enclaves), Inverness-shire and on an exclave of Nairnshire. ...
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Stirlingshire (Siorrachd Sruighlea in Gaelic) is a traditional county of Scotland, based around Stirling, the traditional county town. ...
Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic), or Sutherlandshire, is a traditional county in the north of Scotland, bordering on Caithness to the north and both Ross-shire and Cromartyshire to the south. ...
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