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Selkies – Norse Mermaids

November 7, 2008 Norse Folklore
Selkie

Selkie is a word for ‘seal’ found in modern Shetland, Orkney, Caithness and Moray dialects (in Cromarty also sealchie). In Faroese and Scottish mythology selkies (or silkies) are seals who can take the human form when they take off their seal skin. There are several versions as for how often that may happen: some stories [...]

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Songs for the Philologists by J. R. R. Tolkien

October 20, 2008 Old Norse
Ring

Songs for the Philologists is reputed to be one of the rarest items in the list of books authored or co-authored by J. R. R. Tolkien. The events preceding its publication are worth noting: while a professor at Leeds, Tolkien and E. V. Gordon founded a Viking Club, where undergraduates and tutors drank beer and [...]

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