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Orkney Folk Tales

Tom Muir
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780752499055
  • Dimensions: 125 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Mar 2014
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows.

Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes!

Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.
About Tom Muir
TOM MUIR is a professional storyteller who was born in the Orkney Islands on a farm by the sea. In 2025 he was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list ‘for services to Orkney folk tales’. He has worked in the field of archaeology and at the Orkney Museum, and appears on TV, radio and magazines.

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