The Island Mystery Welcomes Guests Only One Day Per Year

Abandoned after an epidemic since the 19th century, Eynhallow Island is like an empty box on the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland. The island mystery welcomes tourists only one day each year: 1930, the ferry leaves the port of Tingwall Jetty, from the Orkney Islands, to a place where time had stopped long ago. On the horizon, an island jutted out of the sea like the back of a giant whale, caught between waves of surge and the sun was receding. Passengers waited for the ferry to Eynhallow. Eynhallow, an uninhabited island in the north of Scotland, Eynhallow as the destination of pilgrimages, where rituals take place, transmitting folk tales and the whereabouts of these Near Eynhallow, the ferry kept on, past ranches, pastures of cattle and swampy fields

. Passengers chatted loudly. An American family stood on the foothills of the ferry, eager to have a camera ready in hand, even crossed the ocean to get here. Although only 500 meters from the mainland, the Eynhallow was not a shadow for 364 days a year There are no ferry trips to the island, and a trip organized by the Orkney Heritage community on one July night every year is the only chance visitors have a chance to set foot on the island.



There is danger if I want to reach the Eynhallow, the great waves surround the island like forming a fast flowing river. "I see it every day but I still do not understand anything about it," said Bob Nelson, a farmer. Retirees still watch the island offshore from their homes. It is exaggerated to compare Eynhallow with the legendary philosopher Plato's Atlantis, but the comparison is also accurate. If you look at the large-scale map of the Orkney Islands, you will find it difficult to locate the Eynhallow.Eynhallow is dormant among the Orkney islands. Just 900 meters wide, protruding 40 meters high at its highest point, the Eynhallow isn't even shown with an ink dot on the map It is the color of thousands of other Scottish islands, but everything here is stopped, almost at rest.



Like Atlantis, the Eynhallow has many mysteries surrounding it. Scots grew up with stories of haunted islands. According to legend, the sly spirits will cause the Eynhallow to melt into the air if someone wants to set foot here. Others are told about mermaids that transform to land each summer, and the folklore stories that make Eynhallow even more mysterious. The early eynhallow was ambiguous, with no one able to pinpoint exactly where it came from. In the history of the Orkney Counts from the 13th century, the name Eynhallow is only briefly mentioned, while the origins of the other Orkney islands are clearly mentioned.Dan Lee, archaeologist from the epoch Study Plateau and Sea Islands, said: “People in the region say that islands exist between two worlds, both geographically and historically. An epidemic spread across Eynhallow in 1851, displacing families who once lived there.



To purify the Eynhallow and make sure no one returned, the landlords ordered the dismantling of every roof on the island. Since then, it has been abandoned. ”Walking through a field of weeds and trees to a ruined rock monastery, Mr. Lee said that archaeologists have found the remains of the cafeteria, the monastery corridor. In addition to the walls of the monastery, archaeologists found traces of medieval architecture in stone walls, roofs ... revealing an ancient historical period.



older. Prehistoric relics such as burial mounds or stone walls from the Stone Age have also been discovered. All of that evidence opens up a map leading to an undiscovered world. Eynhallow's ruined monastery may be the main monastery of the Orkney Islands. Photo: Mike McEacheran Dr. Sarah Jane Gibbon, Lee's colleague at the university, said: “Eynhallow translates to Holy Island, but its true meaning is not even the inhabitants of the island. used to understand. Orkney is the only place in Western Europe where there is no official monastery, suggesting that it is likely to be on the Eynhallow.



This hypothesis may take us back to the 11th century. A precious archaeological treasure like the Eynhallow will often be invested in research, but compared to the plentiful sources of archaeological research in Orkney, the mystery of the Eynhallow is not yet. For the environmentalists, at least Eynhallow's silence was in favor of the island itself. Since the evacuation in the 19th century, the Eynhallow has become an important habitat for many seabirds, the cliffs today are home to the ancient seagulls, arctic terns or gulls. Back on the ferry, the sound of wild birds echoes only behind archaeologists, who are absorbed in telling each other stories from the adventure that has just ended. Each person put together their own pieces of the puzzle to replace the old people to write another historical story for Eynhallow, taking on the responsibility of extending the story of the island..

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