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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... farmers in any particular district to avoid being the one to bring in the last sheaf . This last sheaf was the object of great superstition . It was often made into a straw dog or Bikko and left on the farmer's step to shame him ; in ...
... farmers in any particular district to avoid being the one to bring in the last sheaf . This last sheaf was the object of great superstition . It was often made into a straw dog or Bikko and left on the farmer's step to shame him ; in ...
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... Farmers in Orkney could now abandon subsistence agriculture and become specia- lists . The climate of Orkney is peculiarly suited to growing grass and therefore to breeding cattle . It is notably unsuited to the growing of grain . The ...
... Farmers in Orkney could now abandon subsistence agriculture and become specia- lists . The climate of Orkney is peculiarly suited to growing grass and therefore to breeding cattle . It is notably unsuited to the growing of grain . The ...
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... farmers like James Muir . On farms the size of the Bu or Helye the landlord could ask whatever rent an offerer was willing to pay , and the tenant had no security of tenure . Not surprisingly , an Orkney Farmers Associ- ation was ...
... farmers like James Muir . On farms the size of the Bu or Helye the landlord could ask whatever rent an offerer was willing to pay , and the tenant had no security of tenure . Not surprisingly , an Orkney Farmers Associ- ation was ...
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