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Storm’s Edge - Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney (Hardcover)
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Storm’s Edge - Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney (Hardcover)
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From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, a history of
Orkney islands that dives deep into island culture, difference and
the evolution of folklore, belief and community memory. Peter
Marshall was born on Orkney, his ancestors farmers and farm
labourers on the northern island of Sanday. In fact, one of them
was murdered by a witch there in 1624. In this book, Marshall looks
afresh at the small island that has been treated by history as a
footnote, remote and peripheral. Through Orkney, we encounter a
wild, isolated place where language was different to the mainland,
neighbours depended entirely on each other and beliefs were pieced
together by communities over generations. We traverse three
centuries of religious, political and economic upheaval, a time
during which what we think of as modern Scotland, and then modern
Britain, was being forged and tested.
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