A finwife ashore for thirty years must return to the sea and pay the crossing with a spouse. Read by Morrin. Written from the Orkney finfolk tradition (Marwick, 1975).
12 min
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Readings from the Norse-Gaelic seam. One story: a finwife who has spent thirty years ashore must go home, and pays the crossing with a spouse.