The Faces of Orkney: Stones, Skalds & Saints; edited by Doreen J. Waugh 

Published in 2003 in paperback, 195pp, by The Scottish Society for Northern Studies, 'The Faces of Orkney: Stones, Skalds and Saints' is another in the series of publications by the Scottish Society for Northern Studies, which includes the companion Shetland volume Shetland's Northern Links: Language and History, also edited by Doreen J. Waugh. The conference which gave rise to this Orkney volume took place in Kirkwall in July 1999 and was contributed to by local people. Contents: Preface by Doreen J. Waugh; Poems by Christine De Luca; Runic Tradition in Orkney: From Orphir to the Belsair Guest House by Michael P. Barnes; Arnorr, Earls' Propagandist? On the Techniques and Social Functions of Skaldic Eulogy by Diana Whaley; George Mackay Brown: Poet and Story Teller by Archie Bevan; St. Magnus: An Exploration of his Sainthood by William P. L. Thomson; Earldom and Kingdom: Orkney in the Realm of Norway 1195-1379 by Steinar Imsen; Cathedral, Palace and Castle: The Strongholds of Kirkwall by Peter Anderson; Samuel Laing of Papdale, Orkney: A Kelp-Laird's Political Ambitions, 1824-1834 by R. P. Fereday; Famine and Victuals on the Graemeshall Estate by Sheena Wenham; Some Thoughts on the Importance of 'Things' by Anne Brundle; The Vikings in Orkney by James Graham-Campbell; Curiouser and Curiouser: Mysteries of Tuquoy and Scar by Olwyn Owen; A Tale of Two Chapels by John Hunter; Bed Rock, Ice Age and Holocene Environment in Orkney by John Brown