Orkney: A Historical Guide by Caroline Wickham-Jones

Author:Caroline Wickham-Jones [Wickham-Jones, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780857905918
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2013-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 28

A nineteenth-century view of the Brough of Deerness.

It is likely that the settlement in the Brough of Birsay included monks, and there were other monastic sites in the islands. At the Brough of Deerness, in the east coast of Mainland, an impressive sea stack is topped by the remains of a stone chapel surrounded by the traces of rectangular buildings that may have included a monastic community. The name of the island of Eynhallow is derived from the Old Norse ‘Eyin Helga’ meaning Holy Isle, and here too are the remains of a twelfth-century church, which the sagas tell us was the centre of a Norse monastery and which possibly had earlier foundations.

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