Olvir Rosta
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Olvir Rosta, also known as Aulver Rosta, is a character within the mediaeval Orkneyinga saga, who is purported to have lived during the early 12th century. His Old Norse byname, rósta, means "brawl",
A page from chapter 93 of the Orkneyinga saga, as it appears in the 14th century Flateyarbók.
Reilig Odhrain, Iona.
Macaulay family of Lewis
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The Macaulay family of Uig in Lewis, known in Scottish Gaelic as Clann mhic Amhlaigh, were a small family located around Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. There is no connect
Olvir Rosta
…may have been preserved in the Hebrides. Thomas stated that within the mythological history of the Outer Hebridean Isle of Lewis, the island clan of Macaulays were said to be the descendants of a man named Amhlaebh, who was one of the twelve sons, or near relations, of a man named Oliver, among whom Lewis was…
The Lewis Chessmen were discovered in the parish of Uig, on Lewis, in 1831. They are thought to have been made in Scandinavia, in the late 12th century, when the Outer Hebrides were a part of the Kingdom of Norway.
The villages of Kneep and Valtos, in Uig. These lands were once held by the Macaulays of Uig.
According to tradition, Clach an Trushal was erected by the Morrisons to mark a victorious battle over the Macaulays.
Dun Carloway, a ruinous Iron Age broch.