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Old Photograph Interior Parish Church Birsay Orkney Islands Scotland
Old photograph of the interior of the Parish Church in Birsay on the Orkney Islands, Scotland. This was the site of the first cathedral of Orkney in the eleventh or twelfth centuries, known as Christchurch, founded by Earl Thorfinn the Mighty after his return from a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy. Thorfinn Sigurdsson, died 1065, also known as Thorfinn the Mighty, was an 11th century Earl of Orkney. He was the youngest of five sons of Earl Sigurd Hlodvirsson and the only one resulting from Sigurd's marriage to a daughter of King Malcolm II of Scotland. Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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