Tag Archives: St Magnus Cathedral

The City and the Stars (8) : Longships ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The traditional picture of the Vikings – looting, marauding, raping invaders – may not be entirely true of their time on Orkney, though they did rule this gentle archipelago with an iron fist for five hundred years… (1300 words, a … Continue reading →

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#Orkney – St Magnus Cathedral #Scotland ~ Deborah Jay

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from Deborah Jay: After crawling into Neolithic tombs on the first morning of our Orkney holiday, the afternoon was time for a shift to a more recent historic site – St Magnus Cathedral. Of course, ‘recent’ is relative, if … Continue reading →