#internationalsealday — Public Fediverse posts
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“The Great Silkie”
The Corries sing their version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (The Corries, Live At The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 1971)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhFlt0cRcs
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #TheCorries #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZy2Q3QY0Q
#Scottish #literature #folkksong #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay #JoanBaez #Scots #Scotslanguage
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭
🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals
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“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”
—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”
—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”
—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”
—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”
—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
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And up come he to her bed fit,
And a grumlie guest I’m sure was he,
Saying, “Here am I, thy bairnie’s faither
Although I may not comely be.”—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
Illustration: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird and Wonderful by Richard Pearse Chope (John Lane, 1912)
#Scottish #literature #ballad #folksong #folklore #Orkney #selkie #seals #InternationalSealDay
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You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head” – winner of the Forward prize for best single poem, 2009
Published in The Wrecking Light, Picador 2010Today, 22 March, is the International Day of the Seal
Listen to Robin Robertson reading the poem here:https://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2011/dec/20/robin-robertson-at-roane-head-video?index=1
#Scottish #literature #poetry #poem #folklore #Seals #Selkie #InternationalSealDay
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Today is the #InternationalSealDay
Let us celebrate!
This #GraySeal enjoying the evening sun is from the Neatherlands!
#VogelFlausch #BirdPhotography #Kegelrobbe #NaturePhotography
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If I ever get my teeth replaced due to old age, this is going to be the design. Decided!
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RT @Palaeo_JRule
Spending #InternationalSealDay thinking about the wierd teeth of the crabeater seals! These teeth are used to filter-feed on krill 🦭
https://twitter.com/Palaeo_JRule/status/1638531862422249472
