Meaning of Orkney | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of Orkney Islands.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
2. A historical county of Scotland, United Kingdom.

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“Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the late Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown wrote. “The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.””

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