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Author : James R. Nicolson
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shetland Folklore written by James R. Nicolson and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Marwick
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788852729
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland written by Ernest Marwick and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the 'simmer din'. Originally Norwegian, they have been part of Scotland for five hundred years, but their many and varied legends, folk tales and customs are still saturated with Norse influences. While this book tells tales and discusses beliefs that are known throughout the northern isles, it also outlines those elements which are unique to each island group. The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland is the standard account of what to this day is one of the richest repositories of lore and custom in Britain. Ernest Marwick not only recounts countless tales which have been transmitted aurally and by writing, but also places these tales within geographical and historical contexts, thus enabling a deeper appreciation of this wonderful material. A bibliography is also included, together with an index of tale types and motifs.
Author : Lawrence Tulloch
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750955465
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Shetland Folk Tales written by Lawrence Tulloch and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being separate from the Scottish mainland, the Shetland Isles have a rich and unique tradition of folklore, from selkies to invading giants and Vikings. This book brings together for the first time many tales of the Isles, including The Boy Who Came from the Ground, and Norway's First Troll, among many others. This collection is sure to enthral and entertain those from the region and anyone who picks up a copy.
Author : John Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shetland Folk-lore written by John Spence and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mollie Hunter
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 1782500863
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)
Download or read book A Stranger Came Ashore written by Mollie Hunter and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Finn Learson staggers out of a stormy sea into a village on the Shetland Isles, he brings a secret with him. While the other villagers are enchanted by the stranger, Robbie suspects he's hiding something. Haunted by tales of the Selkie Folk, Robbie sees the clues everywhere -- the strange coin, the missing ship, Finn's love for Robbie's sister and her golden hair. But can Robbie convince the others in time to save his sister?
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the Orkney & Shetland Islands written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Northcote Whitridge Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the Orkney & Shetland Islands written by Northcote Whitridge Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Fraser Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the Orkney & Shetland Islands written by George Fraser Black and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847793584
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Myth and materiality in a woman’s world written by Lynn Abrams and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in their minds an identity of themselves as 'liberated' long before organised feminism was invented. And yet, Shetland is a place which was made by the most masculine of societies - those of the Picts, Scots and above all the Vikings - and its contemporary identity still draws on the heroic exploits and sagas of medieval Norsemen. This book examines how against this tradition Shetland became a female place, and offers answers as to how, in this most isolated island community, the inhabitants transgressed and reversed their traditional gender roles. Reconstructing this 'woman's world' from fragments of cultural experience captured in written and oral sources, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of social and cultural history, social anthropology, gender and women's studies.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Orkney and Shetland Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Muir
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750955333
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Orkney Folk Tales written by Tom Muir and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.
Author : Peter Cooke
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521268554
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles written by Peter Cooke and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the Shetland Isles 1970-1980, one of the liveliest fiddle-playing traditions in the world.
Author : Andrew Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892688
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea written by Andrew Jennings and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders’ history, forging their unique way of life, influencing their customs and traditions, and has been instrumental in moulding their identities. This volume is an exploration of a rich, intimate and, at times, terrifying relationship. It is the result of an international conference held in April 2014, when scholars from across the North Atlantic rim congregated in Lerwick, Shetland, to discuss maritime traditions, islands in Old Norse literature, insular archaeology, folklore, and traditional belief. The chapters reflect the varied origins of the contributors. Icelanders are well represented, as are scholars based in Orkney and Shetland, indicating the strength of scholarship in these seemingly isolated archipelagos. Peripheral they may be to the UK, but they lie at the heart of the North Atlantic, at the intersection of British and Nordic cultures. This book will be of interest to scholars of a wide range of disciplines, such as those involved in island studies, cultural studies, Old Norse literature, Icelandic studies, maritime heritage, oceanography, linguistics, folklore, British studies, ethnology, and archaeology. Similarly, it will also appeal to researchers from a wide geographical area, particularly the UK, and Scandinavia, and indeed anywhere where there is an interest in the study of islands or the North Atlantic.
Author : John Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Shetland folk-lore written by John Spence and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815310297
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in Scotland written by Brian P. Levack and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954324629
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Folklore from Whalsay and Shetland written by John Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Laurence Gomme
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5873782539
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Ethnology in folklore written by George Laurence Gomme and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1969 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
