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Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums

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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