eople have come to Orkney by boat for thousands of years and many still do today. But if you arrive by air – propeller plane buffeted about as you come into land – you get an unlikely encounter with the islands’ Viking past as soon as you step out of the tiny airport. The name of Kirkwall, Orkney’s largest town, is spelled out on the terminal building not in English or Gaelic, but in Old Norse runes.
Orkney Scotland
Feb 21, 2023
3 minutes
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