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Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums
by Kolekto
Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orumsThis is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv thir own weys o spaekeen and thir own wirds. And we even write the wird/wurd different weys/wiys. Some fokk write hid ‘spikk’; some fokk, ‘spaek’; some, ‘spake’. In this you’ll hear different versions o Orcadian fae different perts o the islands - Birsay tae Deerness, Shapinsay tae Kirkwall, Orphir tae Harray, Tankerness and Holm. You’ll hear twathree uncan vowels, descended fae Orkney Norn and wir Norse heritage, and a mense o wirds you might no ken but that aer rich and expressive and rooted in the land and shores o wir islands. The title hidsel hads three good Orkney wirds: Gouster is a sharp breeze o wind or an ootburst o languageGlim is a glimmer, a blink o light or fireVeerie
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Episode 6
Chapter 15: Trouble in ParadiseChapter 16: This Modren OrkneyChapter 17: An Orkney BestiaryChapter 18: Dancing and Weather
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Episode 5
Chapter 11: Hair an ClaesChapter 12: The BodyChapter 13: Seasons - fourChapter 14: Poems for Rabbie Burns Day
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Episode 4
Chapter 8: Seasons - twoChapter 9: A Mense o NonsenseChapter 10: Seasons - three
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Episode 3
Chapter 5: Water/Air/Fire/Earth. Elements o OrkneyChapter 6: Seasons - oneChapter 7: Weemen's Lives
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Episode 2
Chapter 3: Mind OnChapter 4: Hae a Keepeen on
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Introduction
Introduction to Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums.
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Episode 1
Chapter 1: Mappan OrkneyChapter 2: George Mackay Brown
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Writers biographies
Moyra BrownLorraine BruceVera ButlerSheila GarsonIngrid GrieveIssy GrieveCaroline HumeBarbara JohnstonAlison MillerGreer NorquoyBarbara West
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Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orumsThis is the audio version o Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, the book written bae Orkney Voices and published by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship for the centenary o George Mackay Brown in 2021Orcadians don’t aal spaek the same. Aal the perishes and islands hiv thir own weys o spaekeen and thir own wirds. And we even write the wird/wurd different weys/wiys. Some fokk write hid ‘spikk’; some fokk, ‘spaek’; some, ‘spake’. In this you’ll hear different versions o Orcadian fae different perts o the islands - Birsay tae Deerness, Shapinsay tae Kirkwall, Orphir tae Harray, Tankerness and Holm. You’ll hear twathree uncan vowels, descended fae Orkney Norn and wir Norse heritage, and a mense o wirds you might no ken but that aer rich and expressive and rooted in the land and shores o wir islands. The title hidsel hads three good Orkney wirds: Gouster is a sharp breeze o wind or an ootburst o languageGlim is a glimmer, a blink o light or fireVeerie
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