Most UK Jewellery Shops Aren't a Match For Orkney's Jewelers
Silver bangles created within Orkney remember our links with Norse history. Two wonderful Christmas gifts have arrived in Orkney to recognise a friendly relationship between communities that has bonded the islands with Norway since the Viking Age. Every year the folks of Hordaland give us Christmas trees to stand inside and outside St Magnus Cathedral. Silver bangles and bracelets depicting St Magnus' window sell successfully in the UK and overseas.
While London, Edinburgh and New York each obtain a Christmas tree from Norway; Orkney is gifted 2. The tree that was lit in front of the cathedral on Saturday was presented by the county of Hordaland, which has been twinned with Orkney Islands Council for 26 years, while the smaller sized tree placed within the cathedral hails from the folks of Grimstad, that has a special connection with Orkney's history.
Viking earls St Magnus along with his nephew Kale Kolssn, (born 1100) known at a later time as Earl Rognvald the builder of St Magnus Cathedral , spent their youth as boys on the farm Bringsvrd at Grimstad in southern Norway, now in the region of Aust-Agder. It is in this forest that the tree headed for Orkney is felled.
Kale was born at the sizeable farm where his father Kol Kalessn was the king's adviser. He was wed to Magnus' sister Gunhild and became Earl Rognvald in Orkney on the martyrdom of his uncle Magnus. He built the cathedral to honour his uncle.
In Grimstad the Fjre Kirke (church) on the farm is linked with St Magnus Cathedral though the current natural stone church built around 1150 by local farmers updated the hardwood church that Magnus and Kale were familiar with. In 1987 the 850th anniversary of the beginning of St Magnus Cathedral was noted when the community sent a ornamental plate and a tree to Kirkwall. And that is the way the tree gifting tradition began. Both places of worship were once in the Norwegian diocese of Trondheim.
Silver Bangles Open a Window on History
Grimstad has a population of nearly 20,000, very similar to the total number of inhabitants of Orkney, and is a maritime township set amongst many minor isles. A legendary son of Grimstad was the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Writer Roald Dahl went to see his grandfather and grandmother there and novelist Knut Hamsun was a native of the town.
In the cathedral a Christmas service, which always has standing room only includes carols and music from school choir and pipers of Orkney and musicians from Norway. Above them is the Rose window that's etched on Silver bangles from our website.
Silver bangles created within Orkney remember our links with Norse history. Two wonderful Christmas gifts have arrived in Orkney to recognise a friendly relationship between communities that has bonded the islands with Norway since the Viking Age. Every year the folks of Hordaland give us Christmas trees to stand inside and outside St Magnus Cathedral. Silver bangles and bracelets depicting St Magnus' window sell successfully in the UK and overseas.
While London, Edinburgh and New York each obtain a Christmas tree from Norway; Orkney is gifted 2. The tree that was lit in front of the cathedral on Saturday was presented by the county of Hordaland, which has been twinned with Orkney Islands Council for 26 years, while the smaller sized tree placed within the cathedral hails from the folks of Grimstad, that has a special connection with Orkney's history.
Viking earls St Magnus along with his nephew Kale Kolssn, (born 1100) known at a later time as Earl Rognvald the builder of St Magnus Cathedral , spent their youth as boys on the farm Bringsvrd at Grimstad in southern Norway, now in the region of Aust-Agder. It is in this forest that the tree headed for Orkney is felled.
Kale was born at the sizeable farm where his father Kol Kalessn was the king's adviser. He was wed to Magnus' sister Gunhild and became Earl Rognvald in Orkney on the martyrdom of his uncle Magnus. He built the cathedral to honour his uncle.
In Grimstad the Fjre Kirke (church) on the farm is linked with St Magnus Cathedral though the current natural stone church built around 1150 by local farmers updated the hardwood church that Magnus and Kale were familiar with. In 1987 the 850th anniversary of the beginning of St Magnus Cathedral was noted when the community sent a ornamental plate and a tree to Kirkwall. And that is the way the tree gifting tradition began. Both places of worship were once in the Norwegian diocese of Trondheim.
Silver Bangles Open a Window on History
Grimstad has a population of nearly 20,000, very similar to the total number of inhabitants of Orkney, and is a maritime township set amongst many minor isles. A legendary son of Grimstad was the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Writer Roald Dahl went to see his grandfather and grandmother there and novelist Knut Hamsun was a native of the town.
In the cathedral a Christmas service, which always has standing room only includes carols and music from school choir and pipers of Orkney and musicians from Norway. Above them is the Rose window that's etched on Silver bangles from our website.
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