Handmade Necklaces Capitalize On Traditions
Handmade necklaces are beautiful examples of our Orkney heritage collections which relate to treasured traditions. As soon as you buy jewelry online from an Orkney jewelry website you access a great history.
Our ways of life in Orkney are envied by people throughout the country. Recently it was revealed that the massive Hogmanay gatherings in Edinburgh, which are attended by 80,000 revellers, will play New Year Games, based on a enormous street game, called the Kirkwall Ba' (slang for "football").
These mass football games were once played all over the UK but now only survive during festivals in Kirkwall in Orkney and Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. They are considered to date back to at least Viking times.
In Kirkwall the Ba' is played on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, of course this year it's going to be a day later so they won't be played on a Sunday. There are men's and boy's variations of the games. Scores of people play a part and the town's glass windows and doorways are barricaded to avoid the crush. This includes all jewellery shops exhibiting their handmade necklaces, bangles, brooches and so on.
The objective; like all football games, is to score a goal and win the match. Players are classified as Uppies and Doonies or "Up the Gates" and "Doon the Gates". This is thought to be a corruption of the Old Norse gata, meaning road. Which side you play on is established through the individual's place of birth. Those born to the north of the cathedral are a Doonie, with Uppies being those born in the south. These days players stick to the side of their ancestors instead of where they have been born, specially as so many are born in the hospital here or in Aberdeen.
The action begins on Kirkwall's Broad Street near St Magnus Cathedral. The Uppie goal is to touch the ba' against a wall in the south end of the town, while the Doonies have the ice cold task of getting the ba' into the turbulent waters of Kirkwall Bay, to the north.
Handmade Necklaces Make Great Christmas Presents
Edinburgh revellers are certain to get the choice of contending as Uppies or Doonies at the New Year Games which are being staged in four locations in the city. But they will not be chasing a ba' (a leather ball stuffed with cork). They're going to be taking part in mass games of battleships and hopscotch instead.
So whilst you're admiring your Orkney handmade necklaces should you have already been lucky, or your cherished one has just been logging on to buy jewelry online, spare a moment for those fearless boys pursuing the ba' within the chilly streets of Kirkwall.
Handmade necklaces are beautiful examples of our Orkney heritage collections which relate to treasured traditions. As soon as you buy jewelry online from an Orkney jewelry website you access a great history.
Our ways of life in Orkney are envied by people throughout the country. Recently it was revealed that the massive Hogmanay gatherings in Edinburgh, which are attended by 80,000 revellers, will play New Year Games, based on a enormous street game, called the Kirkwall Ba' (slang for "football").
These mass football games were once played all over the UK but now only survive during festivals in Kirkwall in Orkney and Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. They are considered to date back to at least Viking times.
In Kirkwall the Ba' is played on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, of course this year it's going to be a day later so they won't be played on a Sunday. There are men's and boy's variations of the games. Scores of people play a part and the town's glass windows and doorways are barricaded to avoid the crush. This includes all jewellery shops exhibiting their handmade necklaces, bangles, brooches and so on.
The objective; like all football games, is to score a goal and win the match. Players are classified as Uppies and Doonies or "Up the Gates" and "Doon the Gates". This is thought to be a corruption of the Old Norse gata, meaning road. Which side you play on is established through the individual's place of birth. Those born to the north of the cathedral are a Doonie, with Uppies being those born in the south. These days players stick to the side of their ancestors instead of where they have been born, specially as so many are born in the hospital here or in Aberdeen.
The action begins on Kirkwall's Broad Street near St Magnus Cathedral. The Uppie goal is to touch the ba' against a wall in the south end of the town, while the Doonies have the ice cold task of getting the ba' into the turbulent waters of Kirkwall Bay, to the north.
Handmade Necklaces Make Great Christmas Presents
Edinburgh revellers are certain to get the choice of contending as Uppies or Doonies at the New Year Games which are being staged in four locations in the city. But they will not be chasing a ba' (a leather ball stuffed with cork). They're going to be taking part in mass games of battleships and hopscotch instead.
So whilst you're admiring your Orkney handmade necklaces should you have already been lucky, or your cherished one has just been logging on to buy jewelry online, spare a moment for those fearless boys pursuing the ba' within the chilly streets of Kirkwall.
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When somebody makes a jewelery with own hands, it is not just a thing, it is a treasure!
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