Walter Traill Dennison
Walter Traill Dennison (1825–1894) wis a fermer an fowklairist. He wis a native o the Orkney island o Sanday, in Scotland, Unitit Kinrick, whaur he collectit local fowk tales an ither antiquites.[1] Dennison recordit maist o the information available aboot tradeetional tales tauld on Orkney but tae an extent "romanticised an seestematisit" pairts o it in the process o transformin the stories intae prose.[2] He publisht the fowk stories, mony in the local Orcadian dialect, in 1880 unner the title The Orcadian Sketch-Book (William Peace & Son, Kirkwall).[3] An aw author o the ten Sanday Revival Hymns (published anonymously, 1861, Edinburgh).
Marriet wi ane dochter, he dee'd on 3 September 1894 efter a short illness.[4]
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Citations
- ↑ The Dennison Collection, University of Glasgow, archived frae the original on 4 Mairch 2016, retrieved 15 Juin 2014
- ↑ Jennings, Andrew, The Finnfolk, University of the Highlands and Islands, archived frae the original on 21 Juin 2014, retrieved 21 Juin 2014 Unknown parameter
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"Death of an Orcadian Worthy", Dundee Courier (12847), p. 3, 4 September 1894 – via British Newspaper Archive Unknown parameter
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Bibliografie
- Ellis, Alexander J. (1969), Shakespere and Chaucer, Ardent Media, GGKEY:748SUPYNU4U
