Damsay
Sign in to saveDamsay is an islet in the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. It is approximately in extent and rises to only above sea level. It is situated in the Bay of Firth north of the Orkney Mainland near Finstown. Nearby is the smaller islet of Holm of Grimbister.
Key facts
- Scottish island.Image
- Damsay.jpg
- Scottish island.ImageCaption
- Damsay from Ward of Redland, Mainland, Orkney
- Scottish island.GridReference
- HY389139
- Scottish island.location_map
- Scotland Orkney
- Scottish island.caption
- Damsay shown within Orkney
- Scottish island.celtic name
- Unknown
- Scottish island.norse name
- Damsey/Daminsey
- Scottish island.meaning of name
- Old Norse meaning 'pond island', or possibly 'St Adamnan's Island'
- Scottish island.Population
- 0
- Scottish island.island group
- Orkney
- Scottish island.local authority
- Orkney Islands
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Orkney Islands
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 0.18
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Damsay.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- North Sea
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- Damsay
- historic county
- Orkney Islands
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Damsay is an islet in the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. It is approximately in extent and rises to only above sea level. It is situated in the Bay of Firth north of the Orkney Mainland near Finstown. Nearby is the smaller islet of Holm of Grimbister.
==History== It is now uninhabited, but at one time a Norse hall stood there, and it was the scene of the killing of Earl Erlend Haraldsson by Earls Rögnvald Kali Kolsson and Harald Maddadsson in 1154. Erlend celebrated after returning to the islet for Christmas and retired to his ship the worse for drink on the night of 21 December. Despite being warned of an attack by Sweyn Asleifsson and the presence of a full moon his men were taken by surprise by the attack by his co-rulers and Erlend was killed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Damsay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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