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  1. 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.”

    faeryfolklorist.blogspot.com/2

    #Folklore

  2. 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)

    christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wa

    #Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland #Shetlandic #Scots #Scotslanguage