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| Jo Ben's 1529 "Descriptions of Orkney" | |
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SHAPINSHAY Shapinshay [Schapinschaw], called the Shipping Isle; the inhabitants are very ignorant; they worship the fairie and other abominable [wicked] things. In length the island is six miles, in breadth two. At that place other seas flow where a passage opens to Kirkvallia. [Kirkwall] |
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