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SV" R k G dE M mmXMgm 00 WI %‘ _I K\___\_\_\h__\\m_“___\__\_‘\“‘\n‘“'_\xx‘ ''_'1"-__‘l-V‘‘,."_‘|.Iz_I‘“L‘ _\‘,|4 \_ _ ‘ wMv ____II’_1I_i \' _I‘I__ _ \_‘‘ _|'|'‘__.__“Ill_"__'l_.__I‘I‘ P‘I"l___ \___|‘_\fl__\__|\___1_‘_!_r_'__‘I\\‘__\!I__|-__‘_‘__ _l___________|___l___-_ -__ \K HmwhhmF"_|_w____UW“_I_“I___'h_H___h__G__\_‘ J1_ _'_-_ __‘_ I _‘__ _\_ __‘E. ‘__ ‘I._\___‘. __. \ \ n__' W ‘MnI H__ _m‘H ‘t t f .1 .QQ3 W 6 C 6 _h_ w e6 XG m n 0 PAwMYM’ \ ,__ _: Cm Hm Hmea“Wu LM B "__ P_UMB_h8YS C T O0W eB A VISIT TO THE ISLAND OF SANDAY A VISIT TO THE ISLAND OF SANDAY I by Rev.‘ Alexander Goodfellow (Being a new edition of the introduction to his Church History of - Sanday, first published in 1912, with some lighthearted illustrations which have no justification other than serving to stimulate the imag- ination as to how it might have been. The text is prefaced with a rather tortuous introduction relating to current political problems facing Scotland in general, and Orkney and Shetland in particular.) 4| *s.4'*f’/P W-. -v ‘-""'a& 1 .13 “I had a most wretched season to go through ‘the North Isles with.. ” George Low, 1778 Cienfuegos Press Ltd., Publishers & International Mail Order Booksellers Introduction The Reverend Alexander Goodfellow’s Church History ofSanday is, of course, a part.ial one in both senses of the word; but a small island like Sanday cannot pick and chose its historians and any future chronicler must draw on this valuable and pioneering account from which we shall be republishing the most relevant chapters. Dr. Goodfellow’s prejudices tend naturally towards Church and State; he is first and foremost a Presbyterian minister and an historian second. One must sift out from his accounts that which is truth and that which is opinion, such as his belief that “. devout men engaged in the conversion of the Orcadian heathens, to show their utter abhorrence of the ancient superstition, may have erected their chapels on the very ruins of the temples of Odin”. Here, as with Goodfellow, Alexander everywhere else, it was not abhorrence or contempt but emulation that A visit to the Island of Sanday. induced one religion to appropriate the holy places and customs of the religion 1. Sanday, Orkney - History it superseded. Where it could not eradicate, it adapted; where it suited, it 1. Title tumed the old gods into devils or monsters; or it reduced them in the scale of » 94-1.13 DA880.Sl goodness to mere saints. Later, when Popery was overtaken by the Reform- ation, much the same process took place again with the new borrowing ISBN 0-904564-10-X heavily from the old. Q It is pertinent and provocative to note the continuous element both in the J cohesive form of established religion and the way it has been reconciled with the interests of successive invaders. The Presbyterian religion has always been ails a forerunner of the modern democratic State in which the Government is an elected tyramiy giving the choice of people as rulers, but guaranteeing the permanent stability of rule from above. ~ The history of Orkney up to the present time makes an irrelevance of most modern political systems, all of which worship the State to one degree or another, or attempt to deify it in the form of nationalism. It is immaterial to the needs of the people of Orkney if they are govemed from Edinburgh, London, Strasbourg or Brussels. The geographical distance at which the hub Etin0rcadiaego of government operates is not relevant to the present day. It would remain as distant from our realities and needs if it were situated in Wick or Thurso. First published 1912 by W. R. Mackintosh, Kirkwall. The Orcadian is, by tradition, not a nationalist but essentially an internation- This edition published 1.978 by Cienfuegos Press, alist and one finds them all over the world; as a seafarer, farmer, etc., - the Over-the-Water, Sanday, Orkney, KW17 2BL. world’s his and her oyster. However, with the subject of devolution domin- ISBN 0-904564-10-X ating the political stage in the coming months the question of political Printed by C. Broad. alliances and national “allegiances” is going to be put to Orcadians and Shetlanders.
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