WALK: THE OLD BOATYARDS OF STROMNESS

September 9, 2017 → 10:00 am ─ 11:00 am

| £1 – £3

Join Bryce Wilson for a walk to follow the story of Baikie’s boatyard, which built over 120 yoles and dinghies, and Stanger’s yard, which built brigs, sloops, schooners, smacks and ketches.

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SCIENCE AT THE SEA SCHOOL
THE MUSICAL FIREMAN WHO LOOKED AT THE STARS

A song about ancient Ireland, composed and sung by Lorcán Mac Mathúna, accompanying dramatised scenes from the battle of Clontarf, fought on Good Friday 1014. Irish and Icelandic accounts describe how the army of the Irish High King Brian Boru defeated a Norse invasion force led by Earl Sigurd of Orkney. The state of the tide played a role in the battle, enabling the Norse ships to land in the early morning but later cutting off the retreating Norsemen from them. A 19th-century calculation of the tides in the area confirmed the chroniclers’ details.