The Earl's Bu, Orphir - feasting, farming & commerce at the heart of the Orkney Norse Earldom HES publications Designed by Mairi Helena

Designed by Mairi Helena

This print was produced in Glasgow and is printed on Somerset Velvet 225gsm paper

making it a fun and special tee for young explorers

which was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London

and it certainly paints a fine picture of our strange and varied country and its history

The Earl's Bu, Orphir - feasting, farming & commerce at the heart of the Orkney Norse Earldom HES publications Designed by Mairi HelenaThis volume brings together for the first time major findings from the Earls Bu at Orphir, a flagship site in Orkney best known for its distinctive Late Norse Round Church and adjacent archaeological site. Made famous in the pages of the Orkneyinga Saga, which so clearly describe the extensive highstatus feasting activities that took place here, excavators in the 1930s suggested the wall footings at the Bu were the remains of a Drinking Hall. However,