Finally, after 11 years of collecting jam jar labels,
I have my first of Gairsay
Thanks Tony! (These will be treasured)
I just love my Labels!
Gairsay.
According to the Orkneyinga saga, in Norse times Gairsay was the winter home of the Norse chieftain Sweyn Asleifsson, one the last great Vikings. He farmed during the summer months and spent the winters with his eighty men at arms on his Gairsay estate. After the spring planting had been done Sweyn would go on Viking raids down the west coast of Scotland, England and Ireland. He died attempting to conquer Dublin in the year 1171.
A mansion called Langskaill was built on the site of Sweyn's estate in the seventeenth century by a wealthy merchant, Sir William Craigie, who lived there with his wife Margaret Honyman, daughter of the Bishop of Orkney. He was a member of Parliament and died in Edinburgh in 1712.
According to census records, in 1831 there were 69 people living on Gairsay, and 71 people in fifteen families in 1841. In the 1841 census it was stated that: "The island used to be noted for the quantity of kelp made on it. None has for some years been made on it." In 1851 there were only 41 people in six families living on the island. Ten years later the population was down to 34 people in only five families.
Top second from right, we see the queen, and
bottom LHS we see Horus, both wearing the joint crown that
signifies, the marriage of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Aaaah, beautiful labels....
Now for
Thoth
Osiris
Ptah
Horus
Nephthys
Seth
Ammon
and the God of Crocodiles, Sobek
Another lovely label set from Sweden.
Posted 06/16/2011 12:51 am
