“The Language of these Islands was a dialect of the Norwegian, the same as is used in Iceland to this day. It was called here Norn…but is now so much worn out, that I believe there is scarce a single man in the Country who can express himself on the most ordinary occasion in this language.” Rev. George Low.

The heritage of a community can soon disappear if it is not valued or given scant regard. Huge changes are taking place across Orkney as the thirst for the islands’ renewable energy is exported south. Other developments would see a large deep water facility constructed in Scapa involving significant works on land.

It is often the mundane everyday things around us that no one bothers to record because they have always been there ( at least within living memory.)