A holy Bishop of the Orkney Islands, a man of austere life and a zealous Pastor of souls, formerly in great veneration in the North of Scotland.
The Isles of Orkney are twenty-six in number, besides the lesser, called Holmes, which are uninhabited, and serve only for pasture.
In these islands formerly stood a great number of holy monasteries, the chief of which was Kirkwall.
It is situated in the largest of them, which is thirty miles long, called anciently Pomonia, now Mainland.
The cathedral of Orkney was dedicated under the invocation of Saint Magnus, king of Norway.