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The Earl's Bu, Orphir - feasting, farming & commerce at the heart of the Orkney Norse Earldom By Site_Inchcolm Abbey The Art of Tweed exploresThis volume brings together for the first time major findings from the Earls Bu at Orphir, a flagship site in Orkney best known for its distinctive Late Norse Round Church and adjacent archaeological site. Made famous in the pages of the Orkneyinga Saga, which so clearly describe the extensive highstatus feasting activities that took place here, excavators in the 1930s suggested the wall footings at the Bu were the remains of a Drinking Hall. However,