SULISGEIR 



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is "'merely the Gaelic adaptation of the old Norsk Sker= 

 Skerry — a small island which may or may not have pre- 

 cipitous cliffs : Sgeir and Skerry are actually the same 

 word — one being the Gaelic, the other the English form. 

 The modern Norwegian is Skier or Skicer." Dean Monro 



Siilisgeir 

 or North Barn 



./\, 



Noilh Rona 



6 



The Slack 



(Gnnncts) 



Orkney m 



Q- 



hr\'f- 



^\j v*^/- 



■■X s/gj lyn E R L A X I) 



POSITION OF SULISGEIR AND THE STACK. 



does not mention Gannets by name as being on this isUmd, 

 though what he says about " wylde fouhs " may be taken 

 as applying to them. He says : " This ile is full of wylde 

 fouHs, and quhen fouhs hes ther birdes [i.e., young ones] 

 men out of the parochin of Nesse in Lewis use to sail ther. 

 and to stay ther seven or aught dayes. and to fetch hanic 



