Old Photograph Seal Holm Orkney Islands Scotland

Old photograph of a seal at Holm, Orkney Islands, Scotland. St Mary's Holm is a coastal village on Mainland, Orkney. The name Mainland is a corruption of the Old Norse Meginland. Formerly the island was also known as Hrossey meaning Horse Island. The island is sometimes referred to as Pomona, or Pomonia, a name that stems from a sixteenth century mistranslation by George Buchanan and which has rarely been used locally, although it is retained in the name of the Pomona Inn at Finstown in the parish of Firth, as well as a local cafe in the capital of Kirkwall also known as the Pomona.



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