Most UK Jewellery Shops Aren't a Match For Orkney Jewellers
Silver bangles fashioned here in Orkney remember our links with Norse history. Two very special Christmas presents have come to Orkney to recognise a friendship between communities that has bonded the islands with Norway since the Viking Age. Annually the folks of Hordaland give us Christmas trees to stand outside and inside St Magnus Cathedral. Silver bangles and charms showcasing St Magnus' window sell very well in the UK and overseas.
While London, Edinburgh and New York each are given a Christmas tree from Norway; Orkney is presented with two. The tree that was lit outside the cathedral on Saturday was delivered by the county of Hordaland, that's been twinned with Orkney Islands Council for 26 years, whilst the smaller-sized tree positioned 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 later on as Earl Rognvald the creator 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 within this forest that the tree destined for Orkney is felled.
Kale was born at the sizeable farm where his father Kol Kalessn was the king's spokesperson. He was wedded to Magnus' sister Gunhild and was to become Earl Rognvald in Orkney on the martyrdom of his uncle Magnus. He put up the cathedral to honour his uncle.
In Grimstad the Fjre Kirke (church) on the farm is linked with St Magnus Cathedral though the current stone church created around 1150 by local area farmers upgraded the hardwood church that Magnus and Kale knew. In 1987 the 850th anniversary of the founding of St Magnus Cathedral was denoted when the community sent a plaque and a tree to Kirkwall. And that's how the tree giving custom started. Both places of worship were once in the Norwegian diocese of Trondheim.
Silver Bangles Open a Window on History
Grimstad has a community of nearly 20,000, very similar to the total number of inhabitants of Orkney, and is a maritime township set amid many little islands. A famous son of Grimstad was the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Writer Roald Dahl went to see his grandfather and grandmother there and writer Knut Hamsun was a native of the town.
In the cathedral a Christmas service, which often has standing room only presents carols and music from college choir and pipers of Orkney and bands from Norway. Just above them is the Rose windowpane which is displayed on Silver bangles from our website.
Silver bangles fashioned here in Orkney remember our links with Norse history. Two very special Christmas presents have come to Orkney to recognise a friendship between communities that has bonded the islands with Norway since the Viking Age. Annually the folks of Hordaland give us Christmas trees to stand outside and inside St Magnus Cathedral. Silver bangles and charms showcasing St Magnus' window sell very well in the UK and overseas.
While London, Edinburgh and New York each are given a Christmas tree from Norway; Orkney is presented with two. The tree that was lit outside the cathedral on Saturday was delivered by the county of Hordaland, that's been twinned with Orkney Islands Council for 26 years, whilst the smaller-sized tree positioned 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 later on as Earl Rognvald the creator 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 within this forest that the tree destined for Orkney is felled.
Kale was born at the sizeable farm where his father Kol Kalessn was the king's spokesperson. He was wedded to Magnus' sister Gunhild and was to become Earl Rognvald in Orkney on the martyrdom of his uncle Magnus. He put up the cathedral to honour his uncle.
In Grimstad the Fjre Kirke (church) on the farm is linked with St Magnus Cathedral though the current stone church created around 1150 by local area farmers upgraded the hardwood church that Magnus and Kale knew. In 1987 the 850th anniversary of the founding of St Magnus Cathedral was denoted when the community sent a plaque and a tree to Kirkwall. And that's how the tree giving custom started. Both places of worship were once in the Norwegian diocese of Trondheim.
Silver Bangles Open a Window on History
Grimstad has a community of nearly 20,000, very similar to the total number of inhabitants of Orkney, and is a maritime township set amid many little islands. A famous son of Grimstad was the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Writer Roald Dahl went to see his grandfather and grandmother there and writer Knut Hamsun was a native of the town.
In the cathedral a Christmas service, which often has standing room only presents carols and music from college choir and pipers of Orkney and bands from Norway. Just above them is the Rose windowpane which is displayed on Silver bangles from our website.
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