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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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