In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin MuirScottish Academic Press, 1987 - 184 pages Om social velfærd i Storbritannien, USA, Frankrig, Vesttyskland, Sverige, Østtyskland og Indien |
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... example , in a range of folk - superstitions and medico - superstitious remedies for her many ailments.23 Sutherland was , for his cousin , a marvellous example of vigorous life - a drinker , chaser of girls , and inventor of facts ...
... example , in a range of folk - superstitions and medico - superstitious remedies for her many ailments.23 Sutherland was , for his cousin , a marvellous example of vigorous life - a drinker , chaser of girls , and inventor of facts ...
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... example , a remarkable survival of magical technology in the use of the plough . The single - stilted Orkney plough , popularly supposed by the Orcadians to be that of the ancient Romans , was still in use in Muir's boyhood , though the ...
... example , a remarkable survival of magical technology in the use of the plough . The single - stilted Orkney plough , popularly supposed by the Orcadians to be that of the ancient Romans , was still in use in Muir's boyhood , though the ...
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... example , was widely acknowledged . The advertisement for a new teacher in Wyre in 1875 singled out music as " a ... examples in arithmetic.37 When not frowned on , the dialect was regarded with amusement . Henrietta Groundwater , having ...
... example , was widely acknowledged . The advertisement for a new teacher in Wyre in 1875 singled out music as " a ... examples in arithmetic.37 When not frowned on , the dialect was regarded with amusement . Henrietta Groundwater , having ...
Table des matières
Introduction I | 1 |
References | 159 |
List of Sources | 170 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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ation Autobiography ballads belief boyhood Burroughs Calvinism Calvinist Chapter childhood Church of Scotland congregation crofters Crofting Cursiter Dennison dream Edinburgh Edwin Muir Egilsay Eliade emigration Ernest Marwick evictions exile experience Fable farm farmers father Free Church George Mackay Brown George William Traill Glasgow Golden Age Highlands hill horses houses ibid innocence James Muir John Firth Kirkwall Burgh School labyrinth laird land landlord landscape lived M'Callum memory ministers Muir family Muir's Muir's poetry myth Napier Commission neighbours never nineteenth century Norse North Ronaldsay nostalgia Orcadian Orkney Archives Orkney Herald Paradise parish past peasant plough poem poet religion religious remembered rent road Robert Scarth Rousay Sanday Scots Scottish Journey Secession Church seems Selected Letters society songs Stanley Cursiter Statistical Account story suggests symbol teacher tenants theme traditional Trumland United Presbyterian Church wall Walter Traill Dennison Willa Muir writing wrote Wyre