Hiiesaare Silmakivi

This boulder near Hiiessaare on Hiiumaa's north-east coast has a place in medieval history. When Hiiumaa was divided up in 1254, the Livonian Order received the island's north-eastern part: Kassari and the coast from the Vaemla river as far as the stone now called the Hiiessaare Silmakivi, the 'eye stone'. The boulder thus served as a boundary mark more than 770 years ago, when the island's first written borders were drawn between its new foreign rulers. The stone still lies near the coast at Hiiessaare, a quiet reminder of that division.