ELOERHOLM*
Eloerholm island is now uncultivated,
but the foundation of houses and traces of cultivation are still
to be seen, also a chapel.
The causes of the devastation and
desolation are these.
Two brothers lived here, one a worshipper
of truth, the other with little religion. There was strife between
the brothers; the latter wickedly informed the Bishop that his brother
secretly had meetings with a woman, a near relative of his wife.
Having heard the complaint, the Bishop
was enraged and expelled both; departing with their wives, they
cursed the island on bended knees, so on that account it remains
uninhabited to the present day.
* - Helliar Holm, an islet between Shapinsay and Carness, on the Orkney Mainland.
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