Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
26 February, free online
Prof Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
#Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse
Auld rock meets Nordic Noir
“the idea of the ‘Nordic’ is constructed through the naming of the landscape rather than geography itself”
– Hanne Tange & Gunhild Agger turn a Danish gaze on Shetlandic Scandinavian-ness
3/8
The Scandinavian traveller arriving through Sumburgh is greeted in a homely way. On the road taking drivers out of the airport area stands a multilingual sign, which welcomes voyagers in the four languages of English, Norwegian, German and French. To the Scandinavian the sign is an oddity, signalling at once historical connectivity and geographical distance. […]
A Deep, Owld Anchor
“Even writing about Nicaragua or New York, Cuba or my adopted home of Glasgow, it is with Shetlandic eyes that I see the world, and with Shetlandic ears that I hear it”
—Christie Williamson on da wirds an wyes o spaekin in Shaetlan
2/8
“What makes them Shetlandic?” I was asked recently by a senior member of the University of Glasgow’s Creative Writing department. I was outlining projects of mine to determine their compatibility or otherwise with one of their programs, and described the poems I aspired to make as Shetlandic. The best response I could find at the […]
When Christian I of Norway failed to pay a dowry for his daughter Margaret, queen to James III, #Orkney & #Shetland were annexed by the Scottish crown #OTD, 20 Feb, 1472
NORTHERN-NESS looks at literature from the northern isles, from the sagas to the far future
1/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/northern-ness/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Shetland #Orcadian #Shetlandic #Norse
Much of what is good and true in our laws and social customs, much of what is manly and vigorous in the British Constitution, and much of our intense love of freedom and fair play, is due to the pith, pluck, enterprise, and sense of justice that dwelt in the breasts of the rugged old […]
A boannie nicht for castin kale:
a fat mön vaegin owre Sannis,
a hale gadderie o laads an lasses…
—Christine De Luca, “Hallowe’en Hansel”
published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES
Listen to Christine reading her poems online here
https://www.christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wast_wi_da_valkyries
#Scottish #literature #Shetland #Halloween #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Shetlandic
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
Whan du telt me hoo du thowt o ‘luck’
as nae mair as chance, de happy hubbelskju
o aentropie, I thowt onnly o de ben-end
o my grandmidder’s hoose an aa her talismans
o tat…
—Roseanne Watt, “Lukkie”
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/lukkie/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Shetland #Shetlandic #Scots #Scotslanguage
Rhoda Bulter’s “A Coorse Day” ☝️ read by Jacqueline Clark
3/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fV9Quh23NU
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Shetland #Shetlandic
Da spindrift hings across da soond,
An da sea braks right up ower da Taen;
Da reek is flannin ta da flür,
An da ben laft’s runnin in again…
—Rhoda Bulter, “A Coorse Day”
2/3
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Shetland #Shetlandic
I can see da rüfs aa taekit, an da hens aroond da door;
Fok kerryin twartree paets hame, an rigs delled every voar.
Aa da lums ir reekin, an I hear da happy soonds
O peerie bairns skirlin, as dey play dem ower da toons…
—“Da Clearance”, by Rhoda Bulter (1929–94), born #OTD, 15 July
A 🎂🧵 – 1/3
Listen to Rhoda Bulter reading “Da Clearance” here
https://www.shetlanddialect.org.uk/da-clearance
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Shetland #Shetlandic
Assoc for Scottish Literature