Saint Harald's Mount

Saint Harald's Mount (Elw: Yll Metevolion; Froyalanish: Hǫssbjargíviður) is a small tidal island in Mount's Bay in the Bailiwick of Avaldsnes, near the Royal City of the same name. In local common parlance the islet is simply known as "the Mount". It is one of twenty unbridged tidal islands that one can walk to from mainland Alvaldsnes.

The island is linked to the town of Mettevoll by a man-made causeway of granite setts, passable between mid-tide and low water. The island is usually inhabited by 50 people and is nowadays managed by the Princely Trust. Its castle is since the Ducal Reign of Harald of Froyalan in the possession of the Elwynnese branch of the House of Ettlingar Freyu. The island's chapel was, together with the rest of the island, bought a couple decades later by Harald of Froyalan - at that time Count of Cimmeria - as a wedding gift for his Lady Wife Mortal, Countess Sigrid the Brave, who professes the Lutheran Faith. The island has been a holiday destination for the Elwynnese branch of the House of Ettlingar Freyu ever since.

The Froyalanish language name of the island - literally, "the grey rock in the woods" - represents a ancient folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded and the Mount was situated in woodland. Remains of trees can until this very day be seen at low tides following storms on the beach.

The island received its current official name when an intern clerk at the newly-established local Land Registry who hailed from the Deep South was unable to write down the island's Froyalanish name due to the for him alien letters. The Countess Sigrid then joked to call it St. Harald's Mount in stead since her Lord Husband was a Living Saint. The intern clerk was happy to seize the opportunity to get out of his predicament and the rest is history.

In 1638, the second child of King Noah was born on the island.