weekend to remember Prehistoric monsters Orkney Islands Julie Davidson is overawed by the islands' ancient monuments and modern- day hospitality

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: June 19, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Lucy Rendell is known to few outside Orkney yet she has achieved a kind of immortality: her birth in 1981 - the first in the lonely valley of Rackwick for 32 years - was celebrated by two outstanding creative talents: the poet George Mackay Brown and the composer Peter Maxwell Davies, one a native Orcadian, the other an adopted son of the islands.

Lullaby for Lucy was first performed by the St Magnus Singers in 1981, and its words and music ease me along the glorious path from Rackwick Bay to the Old Man of Hoy, the towering sea stack that is Orkney's landmark. "Lonely they were long, the ...

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