Maeshowe Runes Pendant Metal:Silver Margaret Macdonald worked with her

Margaret Macdonald worked with her husband on creating the famous Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street

they passed three nights carving dozens of inscriptions in their twig-like runic alphabet: messages of love

and the powerful and mysterious mythology of our ancestors

Two versions of the characteristic Viking longship

Maeshowe Runes Pendant Metal:Silver Margaret Macdonald worked with herIn 1153 Viking adventurers broke into Orkney's greatest Neolithic tomb, Maeshowe. Stormbound, they passed three nights carving dozens of inscriptions in their twig like runic alphabet: messages of love, boasts of prowess, and rumours of treasure.