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Tempting the Angels: “Olalla” as Gothic Vampire Narrative
“What truly disturbs in ‘Olalla’ is not the heroine […] It is the profoundly vampiric bond she forms with the hero – & the doubts it raises about his own precarious sanity”
5/6
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/tempting-the-angels-olalla-as-gothic-vampire-narrative/
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay #gothic #horror #vampires
"Row erupts after AI data centre campaigners told to 'stop contacting government'"
Meantime, I bet the datacentre developers have lobbyists targeting every level of #Scottish government. #Scotland #AI #datacentre #datacenter
The Scottish Rock & Pop Lunch
Featuring Scottish artists & bands
12-2pm daily on Radio Jammor
#Scottish #Rock #Pop
#Lunch #Lunchtime
Radio Jammor is on the air...
Broadcasting from #Scotland
https://radiojammor.com
Alexa: Play Radio Jammor (UK Only)
#Music #Radio
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1308571/ Scotland backs human and disability rights in climate action | Scottish Government #action #background #blind #Britain #Caucus #Change #climate #cop31 #Disability #global #government #GreatBritain #human #presidency #Rapporteur #Regions4 #Rights #Scotland #scottish #south #special #UK #UN #UnitedKingdom
Here’s a glorious rendition of Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
9/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhuH2K5yzw
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #HamishHenderson #freedom #song #folksong
Roch the wind in the clear day’s dawin
Blaws the cloods heelster-gowdie ow’r the bay,
But there’s mair nor a roch wind blawin
Through the great glen o’ the warld the day…
—Hamish Henderson, “The Freedom Come-All-Ye”
in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks 2021
8/10
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #HamishHenderson #freedom
“The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” ☝️ is based on a 16th-century German folksong, “Streitlied zwischen Leben und Tod”. You can listen to Henderson’s poem being sung here by Alison McMorland
5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAheJjneNV4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #HamishHenderson #song #folksong