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Silver bangles crafted within Orkney celebrate our links with Norse history. Two very special Christmas tokens have come again to Orkney to mark a relationship between communities that has bonded the islands with Norway ever since the Viking Age. On a yearly basis the folks of Hordaland provide us with Christmas trees to stand inside and outside St Magnus Cathedral. Silver bangles and bracelets depicting 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 gifted a pair. The tree which was lit outside of the cathedral on Saturday was provided by the county of Hordaland, that's been twinned with Orkney Islands Council for 26 years, while the smaller-sized tree located inside 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 afterwards as Earl Rognvald the creator of St Magnus Cathedral , were raised as boys on the farm Bringsvrd at Grimstad in southern Norway, now in the county of Aust-Agder. It is in this particular forest that the tree meant for Orkney is felled.
Kale was born at the big farm where his father Kol Kalessn was the king's adviser. He was married to Magnus' sister Gunhild and became Earl Rognvald in Orkney on the martyrdom of his uncle Magnus. He created the cathedral to honour his uncle.
In Grimstad the Fjre Kirke (church) on the farm is linked with St Magnus Cathedral although the present-day stone church created around 1150 by local area farmers updated the solid wood church that Magnus and Kale were familiar with. In 1987 the 850th anniversary of the founding of St Magnus Cathedral was marked when the community sent a ornamental plate and a tree to Kirkwall. And that is exactly the way the tree gifting tradition started. Both church buildings were once in the Norwegian diocese of Trondheim.
Silver Bangles Open a Window on History
Grimstad has a population of nearly 20,000, similar to the total number of inhabitants of Orkney, and is a seafaring township set amidst many tiny isles. A famous son of Grimstad was the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Writer Roald Dahl went to visit his grandfather and grandmother there and author Knut Hamsun had been a native of the town.
In the cathedral a Christmas service, which usually has standing room only offers carols and music from college choir and pipers of Orkney and music artists from Norway. Just above them is the Rose window which is shown on Silver bangles from our website.
Silver bangles crafted within Orkney celebrate our links with Norse history. Two very special Christmas tokens have come again to Orkney to mark a relationship between communities that has bonded the islands with Norway ever since the Viking Age. On a yearly basis the folks of Hordaland provide us with Christmas trees to stand inside and outside St Magnus Cathedral. Silver bangles and bracelets depicting 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 gifted a pair. The tree which was lit outside of the cathedral on Saturday was provided by the county of Hordaland, that's been twinned with Orkney Islands Council for 26 years, while the smaller-sized tree located inside 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 afterwards as Earl Rognvald the creator of St Magnus Cathedral , were raised as boys on the farm Bringsvrd at Grimstad in southern Norway, now in the county of Aust-Agder. It is in this particular forest that the tree meant for Orkney is felled.
Kale was born at the big farm where his father Kol Kalessn was the king's adviser. He was married to Magnus' sister Gunhild and became Earl Rognvald in Orkney on the martyrdom of his uncle Magnus. He created the cathedral to honour his uncle.
In Grimstad the Fjre Kirke (church) on the farm is linked with St Magnus Cathedral although the present-day stone church created around 1150 by local area farmers updated the solid wood church that Magnus and Kale were familiar with. In 1987 the 850th anniversary of the founding of St Magnus Cathedral was marked when the community sent a ornamental plate and a tree to Kirkwall. And that is exactly the way the tree gifting tradition started. Both church buildings were once in the Norwegian diocese of Trondheim.
Silver Bangles Open a Window on History
Grimstad has a population of nearly 20,000, similar to the total number of inhabitants of Orkney, and is a seafaring township set amidst many tiny isles. A famous son of Grimstad was the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Writer Roald Dahl went to visit his grandfather and grandmother there and author Knut Hamsun had been a native of the town.
In the cathedral a Christmas service, which usually has standing room only offers carols and music from college choir and pipers of Orkney and music artists from Norway. Just above them is the Rose window which is shown on Silver bangles from our website.
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