Odin's Eye Blog

Category: Mimir’s Well

• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Piracy in northern waters

  Immortalised by Sir Walter Scott, pirate John Gow grew up in Stromness

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Midsummer, Johnsmas and bonfires

  Midsummer customs are not so well know as midwinter ones

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney Students

  The return of the Muckle Supper?

  Harvest time was celebrated by our ancestors

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  On the trail of Hammer Mugly

  A look at some specific place names of Orkney

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Messengers from the past

  A look as some specific place names of Orkney

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  St Olaf – our other saint

  Orkney has a few saints, here we look at one

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney Shetland

  Yule cakes, guisers and ogresses

  A look at customs from Christmases past

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  A hard day’s work at the peat bank

  Peat was used to heat many homes in times past

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney Shetland

  When should we celebrate St Magnus?

  The 16th April is St Magnus Day in Orkney

  2nd Feb 2022
• Mimir’s Well Orkney

  Press gangs in Orkney

  The threat of the press gang was very real for our Orcadian ancestors

  2nd Feb 2022