Just as the Viking Jarls of the Saga once laid claim to and fought over the Orcadian Isles, at times painting the shores and hills with their blood, so ventured the 44th to these misty and mysterious isles, to leave their own individual marks in the very rocks themselves. Bob the Adventurer, Troll, Gant, Stella, Skull-Splitter, Whisson the Wanderer and Man of Nails, Lofty, Shorty, Ellison - son of Ellison, Liter-Snorrson Rich & S-Johnnson the Red - the fearsome raiding party took the islanders by surprise and no unsuspecting fair maid of Orkney was safe from wearing the blue jumper of the 44th! (Not to mention itinerant Dutch Damsels on the trail of the Big Ben of Nevis).
Expecting a calm and tranquil stay we had to look for solitude and peace on the outer islands for on Hrossay (Mainland) it was Stromness Shopping Week and in Kirkwall the Shetland Womens Hockey team were battling it out with the local Orcadian girls - scenes that conjured up the Viking engagements of Earl Rognvald and Hallvard.
Read of the 44th's own Orkneyinga Saga by seeking the Puffin of Yesnaby ......
Taxi!