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Alastair Macleod Morganna Königin der Orkney Inseln

und andere Volksgeschichten von Orkney

Fiction
German
2389 Words
Ages 8 and up
91
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Eine Auswahl von Folktales von den Orkney Inseln, hier treffen sich zwei Ozeane. Morganna war eigentlich Königin der Orkney [more]

Keywords: Orkney Inseln, Königin, Piktisches Königreich, Meerkind, Adler, DER GRÜNE MANN, das Meer

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Alastair Macleod The Orkney Weather

A Lyrical Guide

Travel
English
3402 Words
Ages 10 and up
477
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"to be a resident or a visitor to Orkney is to be struck by many things – everywhere, loch, sea, and peaty burn separate the land with fingers of sparkling water. Dressed in a hundred greens and bonneted with browns and purples, the hills gently curve whalelike against the surface of an enormous sky; but even a day in Orkney will reveal a secret, that this vista is merely a backcloth and stage for the real players in this glorious drama, the elements. Over a year, Orkney will throw at you the watery vigour of the Atlantic, the icy touch of the pole and occasionally the unveiled burn of the northern sun. This little booklet is a brief introduction to the players, Wind, Rain. Frost, Snow and Sun. Wind has the biggest part and Rain not far behind. Frost flits in and out, while Snow is fickle and although she does beautify the land, she does not remain on stage for long. The smallest part goes to Sun but he lifts the heart of the audience whenever he appears" [more]

Keywords: Orkney, climate, travel, weather, seasons, walking

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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr An Orkney Maid

Fiction
English
63774 Words
No Age Recommendation
676
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Keywords: Orkneys, Scotland

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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr An Orkney Maid

Fiction
English
62583 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was a British novelist.She was born on [more]

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Alastair Macleod The Three Herons

and other folktales of Orkney

Fiction
English
3041 Words
Ages 8 and up
101
0

Five modern folktales from Orkney; The Three Herons, The House Elves of Breck, The Trolls of Trolla Vatn, [more]

Keywords: life force, the Norse elves, trolls, Giantesses, the Elvar, Orkney

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Alastair Macleod The Mirror of the Shamaness

Fiction
English
2443 Words
Ages 8 and up
104
0

It is Pictish Orkney, before the Christian period. A Shamaness seeks a powerful aid in her work as [more]

Keywords: Shamaness, Pictish Orkney, Divination using water, Belief

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Alastair Macleod Patterns of Espionage

a story of War, Spies and Battleships

Short Story
English
2136 Words
Ages 10 and up
258
0

"As she knelt concernedly by the ashen-faced sailor taking his pulse, Captain Stewart noticed her hands, neat slim white fingers, almost translucent; no ring on the left hand. "Married? he asked, as she stood up. "Widowed," she said. "In ‘35, a mining accident." "Oh, sorry how stupid of me." said the Captain. "It’s alright," she said, "You were not to know." But he did know. As head of Naval Security, Scapa Flow, he had read the briefing files on all the professional and other key personages in the Orkney Islands. The tight security surrounding the islands was there because Orkney was of crucial strategic importance. It was the main base for the Home Fleet; from here they attacked German surface vessels and U boats moving through the Fair Isle Channel between Norway and Britain. All mail and personnel leaving and entering the Orkney Islands was scrutinised with extreme thoroughness. The British reckoned, that to track ship movements, German Intelligence would have at least one or two, perhaps more, agents planted in the islands. It was Captain Stewart's job to find them" [more]

Keywords: spying, war, Orkney, Scapa Flow, WW2, women

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Alastair Macleod Blue Rush

love and power in the waves

Romance
English
12305 Words
Ages 10 and up
320
1

"For the professional young women of Orkney, this influx of engineers and scientists was a godsend. It opened up the choice and here were men on good salaries, men with prospects. The selection of farmers, shopkeepers, and local government officers could seem dull to a girl. These new men, some of whom were international, were connected to energy, to taming the unruly sea, it was exciting. For Phillippe, Orkney was on the edge of something; the edge of Europe, the edge of civilisation, the edge in weather terms and the edge in engineering terms. He wanted, needed, to overcome the edgeness, to conquer the challenges, to tame the nature of the sea, to make the tidal power machine work. Then what? He hadn’t thought that far; this project was probably going to take some time, maybe 10 years at least. For Kara this was no edge, no remote spot, this was home and here she planned to stay. She wanted a family, a husband and children, the next generation stretching before her." [more]

Keywords: love, relationships, Orkney, Wave Power, new men

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Alastair Macleod Green Turtle

an ancient memory

Short Story
English
2173 Words
Ages 10 and up
99
0

A few degrees of extra warmth in the Ocean may lead to surprises. Working in the Orkney Islands, a young female marine biologist, reeling from a recent break up finds a live GreenTurtle, a Goddess of the Sea, on the beach. This startling discovery about the warming ocean, has deeper effects, enough in fact to change her relationship with her work colleague. The Orkney archipelago lies in the path ot the Gulf Stream, or the North Atlantic Drift as it is also called. Continually millions of gallons of warm water pump out from the Caribbean and stream north east carrying zooplankton, phytoplankton and jelly fish towards the British Isles. Following this mobile food source, sea creatures such as turtles, basking sharks and fish reach our shores. [more]

Keywords: Green Turtles, Love, Orkney, migration, sea temperatures, global warming

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Alastair Macleod The Wedding at Bennibister

Fiction
English
24030 Words
Ages 10 and up
259
0

This novella is sequel to Bennibister. In that story, set in the Orkney Islands, a man searching for his emotional self finds it, only to have it plucked from him. A son remains as evidence of that passion and another woman enters his life. Can she match the love that went before ? How would I describe the Orkney Islands? “A woman, lying part submerged, bathing in a shallow sea of turquoise; her smooth rounded hills rising from the ocean, bringing forth an archipelago of islands in the blue water.” This would be true. Yet this is the North of Britain, the real North where gales and rain lash the treeless landscape and the sea pounds the cliffs. This also would be true. Against this backdrop people make their lives here much as anywhere, they live, they die, they love, they give birth. They reach for things beyond themselves." The novellas are in sequence, Bennibister, The Wedding at Bennibister. The Third Norn (at Bennibister). [more]

Keywords: Bennibister, horses, a wedding, ghosts, renewal, love, Orkney, the land

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