Gairsay

Map of Gairsay

GAIRSAY (ON Gareksey, Garek's Isle). The home in Viking times of the chieftain Olaf Rolfson and his famous Viking son, Sweyn Asleifson, Gairsay is one of the most attractive islands in Orkney and with its excellent haven at Millburn Bay (HY450218) and fertile, south-facing land it would have been a natural place for a Viking chieftain to live. Few places evoke the proximity of our Viking past more than Gairsay.

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