Kirkwall, capital of Orkney, in the E. of Mainland, 35 m. NE. of Thurso; has a fine cathedral named St. Magnus, and some shipping trade; it was in mediæval times subject to Norway, and was the residence of the jarls.
Population (circa 1900) given as 4,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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