SCIENCE FESTIVAL SERVICE

September 10, 2017 → 11:15 am ─ 12:15 pm

led by the Cathedral’s associate minister, Rev. June Freeth, with St Magnus Cathedral Choir.

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8.00 – 12.00 midnight Meet up at the Festival Club at The Reel
The One O’Clock Toast at the Peedie Kirk today: Capt. Robbie Sutherland, master mariner and teacher, by Capt. Willie Mackay

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.