Listen 👂 Hear the OrkneyInga saga being read aloud in Ousdale Broch in old Norse, the language of the Norsemen. Probably for the first time in centuries! Tom reads one of the final passages of the saga that recounts the tale of William the Lion, King of Scotland, marching north to Ousdale in the year 1201. According to the Orkneyinga Saga, Ousdale - known as Eysteinsdal by the Norse - was the scene of a confrontation between William the Lion, King of Scotland, and Harald the Elder (the 'Wicked

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