Orkneyology Podcast

The Man who Saved Orkney's Stories ~ Walter Traill Dennison


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Tonight, we'll have a blether about these things and more:

  • How Dennison first heard the stories from the old crofter folk of Orkney
  • How he recorded and published them
  • And - maddeningly - hints of many stories that got away
  • Assipattle the Viking
  • Who pulled the roof off Noltland Castle?
  • And who on earth would burn a boat burial?!
  • Making a cog for Time Team in Sanday
  • The story of the mester ship
  • The Mither o' the Sea - a goddess who rules Orkney's seas in the summertime
  • Find out what Valkyries weave with ... if you're not squeamish.
  • The story of Assipattle and the Stoorworm
  • The terrible Nucklavee, description by Dennison
  • What Dennison recorded about sea trows, the finmen and Eynhallow
  • How Tam Scott Lost his Sight
  • Beauty amidst poverty: the story of Arthur Deerness and the Mermaid
  • And of course, a selkie story
  • Other writings of Dennison, including the first written Orkney dialect



Link to Historic Environment Scotland's film about the Sanday shipwreck, featuring the voice of Orcadian Tom Muir MBE



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