The "Kissin' Maet"

Another pre-marriage ritual involved the young couple eating the kisseen’ maet - a dialect term, simply meaning kissing food.

Traditionally, this meal consisted of limpets, boiled in milk and water. It had to be eaten before sunset - which, in the depths of an Orkney winter, is around about 3pm.

The betrothed couple had to make sure they kissed before, and after, eating this meal.

Biddin' da folk