Here you can find the resources we are developing for the journey. Many of these are linked to the smartphone app.
52 resources were found:
O2K Cathedral walk
St Olaf's Kirk 360
Salt Pan
Photograph of the site of St Olaf's Kirk, from the 11th century, with part of the 16th century restoration.
Photograph of Kirbister, Orphir.
St Olaf's KirkHistorical information about St Olaf's Kirk, where Magnus's bones were brought to from Birsay before the Cathedral was ready.
Picture of Hesti Geo
Picture of the Royal Oak Memorial
Photograph of the steps below Hobbister.
Our theme for this final stage is Hospitality – reflecting on the place of feasting then and now, as well as the place of welcome afforded Magnus in Kirkwall, and the reception we ourselves anticipate.
The Orkneying Saga Centre, Orphir
Photograph of Waulkmill and Scapa Flow.
Poem on how the St Magnus Way does not need to be declared open, written for the launch of the final section.
Historical information about St Magnus Cathedral.
Poem on the effort of moving through landscape.
Description of the route from Orphir to Kirkwall
Historical information on how the bones of Magnus came to be in the Cathedral, were thought lost after the Reformation and then rediscovered in the 1920s.
Downloadable GPX file of Orphir to Kirkwall route for use with mapping applications, including Ordnance Survey.
Map of the route from Orphir to Kirkwall.
