THE ORKNEY YOLE, AND HOW TO BUILD IT

THE ORKNEY YOLE, AND HOW TO BUILD IT

September 9, 2017 → 2:00 pm ─ 3:00 pm

| £2 – £4

Naval architect Dennis Davidson describes how the design of the Orkney yole evolved and how islanders used it for their survival. Len Wilson tells how he built the three-sailed South Isles yole Gremsa in 2000, from moulds and construction to rigging and launching.

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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.