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A
Year of Orcadian Tradition
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"I measure night and day," says September the joiner.
"Not long now, at the longest, the dark."
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| September |
September was, and still is, the month of harvest.
Many of the traditions surrounding harvest are now forgotten
but, at one time, this was the busiest, and most laborious,
period of the Orkney farming year.
For full details of old Orcadian harvest lore, click
here. |
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The Feast of St Michael, Michaelmas, was celebrated in
the islands on September 29 - October 12, by the Old Style
calendar. It has been suggested that Orkney's "Muckle
Feast" is actually a corruption of the"Mikkel
Feast" - "Mikkel" being the Norse for "Michael". Click here for more details. |
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September sees the arrival of the "Gore Vellye"
- the Autumn Tumult - a time when equinoctial gales batter
the islands.
The early Orcadians explained these weather conditions as
the result of a fearsome battle between the Sea
Mither and her bitter nemesis, Teran. |
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