The Orcadian Islands formed, indeed, a Norwegian kingdom, which was not entirely at an end till the thirteenth century.

But we had neither time nor skill to decipher what noble Orcadian lay beneath.

He waited only to finish the last notes of the wild Orcadian chant, and opened the door.

His reputation as a poet was extended by the publication, in 1832, of a second volume, under the title of "Orcadian Sketches."