#shetland — Public Fediverse posts
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The Trows of #Orkney and #Shetland
What is a #Trow?
According to Saxby and Edmondston’s 'Home of a #Naturalist’ (1888):
“This interesting race of #supernatural beings is closely allied to the #Scandinavian #Trolls, but has some very distinctive characteristics of its own. The Trow is not such a mischief-making #sprite as the Troll, is more #human-like in some respects, and his #nature seems cast in a #morbid, #melancholy mould.”
https://faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-trows-of-orkney-and-shetland.html
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Du gies hooseroom tae a swap o scarfs,
lodgins ta mallies. A shjalder swanks
apo dy shooder…—Christine De Luca, “Growin Auld (Wasterwick)”
published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES (Shetland Library, 1997)https://www.christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wast_wi_da_valkyries
#Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland #Shetlandic #Scots #Scotslanguage