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Carrying Salmon to Scotland?: Late Norse Exploitation of Salmonid Fishes at Earl’s Bu, Orkney (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Late Norse site of Earl’s Bu is a high status farmstead site located in Orphir on Orkney’s Mainland. Described in the 13th-century Orkneyinga Saga, the site served not only as Earl Harald’s residence, but hosted a series of documented feasts, the largest of which reportedly took place at Christmas in 1135 CE....