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Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>Filmed by Mike Robertson for The Orkney News on a very wet day in Orkney. Peace campaigners came together on Saturday 29 March to continue in their calls for an immediate ceasefire, the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, and the release of all hostages. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <br><a href="https://youtu.be/t5XdGMPhbx4?si=B9JqYidLoVnJu97R" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/t5XdGMPhbx4?si=B9JqYi</span><span class="invisible">dLoVnJu97R</span></a></p>
LostSettler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HarriettMB</span></a></span> 100%. Scotland is NOT like this, in my experience. Especially not here in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orkney</span></a>. We should not be tying ourselves to a fascist culture of death where snitching on your neighbours is tolerated, nay encouraged, and blame culture is rampant.</p><p>Tolerance. Forgiveness. Care for each other. Care for the communities we live in. That's the Scotland I inhabit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/freeScotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeScotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/dumpEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumpEngland</span></a></p>
Feral Strumpet<p>There's still time to enter our GIVEAWAY! This month our shop turns 14! I started the shop on my kitchen table with a box full of beads &amp; a vision. </p><p>This month we're celebrating by giving away a Feral Care Package worth over £70 to one lucky customer. Enter to win by making a purchase of £25 or more in March. The winner will be announced on April Fool's Day.<br>Find out more about what's in the care package here: <br><a href="https://feralstrumpet.com/blogs/news/giveaway-time-we-are-14-this-month" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feralstrumpet.com/blogs/news/g</span><span class="invisible">iveaway-time-we-are-14-this-month</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Jewellery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewellery</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Witchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Witchy</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pagan</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>On Monday she stood at the wooden wash-tub,<br>Suds to the elbow,<br>A slave among the storm-gray shirts and sheets…</p><p>—George Mackay Brown, “The Mother”<br>published in TRAVELLERS, Hachette 2014</p><p><a href="https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/none/travellers/9781848549487/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hachette.co.uk/titles/none/tra</span><span class="invisible">vellers/9781848549487/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MothersDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MothersDay</span></a></p>
Cat McIntyre<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StandingStoneSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStoneSunday</span></a> Stenness, Orkney (2023) </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StoneCircle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneCircle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/L%C3%A0NanTursachan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LàNanTursachan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tursachan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tursachan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/StandingStones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingStones</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TheStandingStonesOfStenness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheStandingStonesOfStenness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neolithic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/NeolithicMonument" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeolithicMonument</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Peter Brown<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbcnews</span></a></span> ships leaving to cross the Atlantic made their last stop at Stromness in Orkney to take on stores and especially water. This explains why in the early days of the Hudsons Bay Company a high proportion of the employees and managers were Orcadian. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orkney</span></a></p>
Arlington Baths Club<p>Packed house for our last <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> of the season The Outrun staring Soairse Ronan and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orkney</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/clocksforward" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clocksforward</span></a></p>
Brian<p>Always loved travelling to islands , ticking another 2-3 off the list today ,thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/pentlandferries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pentlandferries</span></a> .Gills Bay to St Margaret's Hope. ,<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>April Opening for HES Sites in&nbsp;<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p><p>The Bishop’s Palace and Earl’s Palace, the Broch of Gurness, and Hackness Martello Tower and Battery, which have been closed for the winter will reopen to visitors in April. The Bishop’s Palace is Kirkwall’s oldest surviving domestic building, dating from the early 1100s. It is the only episcopal palace ever built in Norse Scotland, and where the last Norwegian king in Scotland died.</p><p><a href="https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/29/april-opening-for-hes-sites-in-orkney/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/29/</span><span class="invisible">april-opening-for-hes-sites-in-orkney/</span></a></p>
CLondoner92 (New Account)<p>From 1 April 2025, young residents under 22 in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Shetland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shetland</span></a>, and the Outer <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Hebrides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hebrides</span></a> will receive free inter-island ferry travel. The scheme, part of the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> Government's Islands Connectivity Plan, allows free travel as foot passengers on local ferries with a Young Scot or National Entitlement Card. This initiative, highlighted in the 2025-26 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/transport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transport</span></a> budget, aims to make ferry services more affordable and sustainable, helping tackle child poverty and support economic growth. It will improve access to education, work, and social opportunities. Supported by the Scottish Youth Parliament, the scheme will make rural activities more accessible for young islanders.<br><a href="https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/free-inter-island-ferry-travel-introduced-for-young-people-in-orkney-shetland-and-the-outer-hebrides/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">transport.gov.scot/news/free-i</span><span class="invisible">nter-island-ferry-travel-introduced-for-young-people-in-orkney-shetland-and-the-outer-hebrides/</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>Breezy at Birsay <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>“This is a perfect, hearty, oat-y bread with a lovely ginger flavor. It’s delicious and moist when fresh, but still excellent toasted and buttered the next day”</p><p>The History in the Making website shares F. Marian McNeill’s recipe for Broonie – a traditional oatmeal gingerbread from Orkney</p><p>4/4</p><p><a href="https://history-in-the-making.com/2021/02/21/broonie/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">history-in-the-making.com/2021</span><span class="invisible">/02/21/broonie/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenwriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cookbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookbooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/recipes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recipes</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>NEW – Birlinn has just published a new edition of F. Marian McNeill’s A SCOTS KITCHEN, edited &amp; introduced by Catherine Brown &amp; illustrated by Iain McIntosh</p><p>3/4</p><p><a href="https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-scots-kitchen-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">birlinn.co.uk/product/the-scot</span><span class="invisible">s-kitchen-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenwriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cookbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookbooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/recipes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recipes</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>“Florence Marian McNeill had curated and created a book that had become an iconic, cultural bequest at a personal family level”</p><p>—Amanda Edmiston explores the legacy of F. Marian McNeill’s classic cookbook THE SCOTS KITCHEN</p><p>2/4</p><p><a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/dreaming-bread-and-flourishing-folklore/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/dr</span><span class="invisible">eaming-bread-and-flourishing-folklore/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenwriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cookbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookbooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/recipes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recipes</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Florence Marian McNeill (1885–1973) was born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>, 26 March. A notable figure in Scotland’s 20th-century literary renaissance, she wrote on suffrage, politics, food, heritage, &amp; folklore – including the recipe and food-heritage book THE SCOTS KITCHEN, and THE SILVER BOUGH, a 4-volume study of Scottish festivals &amp; folk-belief</p><p>1/4</p><p><a href="https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scottishwomenwritersontheweb.n</span><span class="invisible">et/writers-a-to-z/florence-marian-mcneill</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thCentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/womenwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenwriters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cookbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookbooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/recipes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recipes</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>A quiet night in Kirkwall <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a></p>
Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd<p>People in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> came together on Saturday 22 March appalled at the situation in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> as Israel broke the ceasefire. Over 170 children and babies were killed in one day. <br>In this film by Mike Robertson for The Orkney News we hear from some of those who attended the vigil on the Kirk Green, Broad Street, Kirkwall.<br><a href="https://youtu.be/7Y_S53zE3Tw?si=BHTZTscyiQVKXvfB" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/7Y_S53zE3Tw?si=BHTZTs</span><span class="invisible">cyiQVKXvfB</span></a></p>
Monissa<p>In another place, I'm doing a thread of islands I've visited, because it fits my username. One photo every day or so. But sometimes an extra photo slips in that I can't use (because one photo per island) so I'll have to share it here.</p><p>St Tredwell's Loch, on Papa Westray, one of the smaller islands of Orkney. I don't know why a lake on an island seems so odd, but it does. Maybe because of how close it is to the sea. (You might be able to see the strip of blue sea behind the loch.)</p><p>Photo is taken from St Tredwell's Chapel, the ruins of a Medieval chapel built over Iron Age remains, or an overgrown bunch of rocks on a hill. (As you can in the foreground.)</p><p>If you're into photos of islands, the thread starts here:<br><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/islandhopping.bsky.social/post/3li44sq4nxs2t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/islandhopping</span><span class="invisible">.bsky.social/post/3li44sq4nxs2t</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PapaWestray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapaWestray</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Lakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lakes</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Islands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Islands</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/landscapephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscapephotography</span></a></p>
LostSettler<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/silentsunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silentsunday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/breckness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>breckness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orkney</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>And up come he to her bed fit,<br>And a grumlie guest I’m sure was he,<br>Saying, “Here am I, thy bairnie’s faither<br>Although I may not comely be.”</p><p>—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)</p><p>Illustration: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird and Wonderful by Richard Pearse Chope (John Lane, 1912)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ballad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ballad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folksong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folksong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orkney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orkney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/selkie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selkie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/seals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/InternationalSealDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalSealDay</span></a></p>
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