On a mission to crack the Norse code

Gavin Francis

The wind whipped the waves of Scapa Flow into streamers of white froth, and the swell built to a stomach-churning height.An announcement came over the Tannoy – our ferry would just make it in to Stromness, but its return journey to Scrabster would be cancelled. The other passengers took in this information without a murmur. Orcadians know that they are cut off, that they live in a world apart.

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