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Note VI. (#n_Note_VI_9_13)– Zetland Corn-mills.
34
What is eat by way of relish to dry bread is called kitchen in Scotland, as cheese, dried fish, or the like relishing morsels.
35
See Hibbert’s Description of the Zetland Islands, p. 470.
36
See Note I. (#n_Note_I_2_13)– Norse Fragments.
37
Montrose, in his last and ill-advised attempt to invade Scotland, augmented his small army of Danes and Scottish Royalists, by some bands of raw troops, hastily levied, or rather pressed into his service, in the Orkney and Zetland Isles, who, having little heart either to the cause or manner of service, behaved but indifferently when they came into action.
38
Here, as afterwards remarked in the text, the Zetlander’s memory deceived him grossly. Sir John Urry, a brave soldier of fortune, was at that time in Montrose’s army, and made prisoner along with him. He had changed so often that the mistake is pardonable. After the action, he was executed by the Covenanters; and
“Wind-changing Warwick then could change no more”
Strachan commanded the body by which Montrose was routed.
39
Note VII. (#n_Note_VII_11_13)– The Sword-Dance.
40
See some admirable discussion on this passage, in the Variorum Shakspeare.
41
The contest about the whale will remind the poetical reader of Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands.
42
The Lawting was the Comitia, or Supreme Court, of the country, being retained both in Orkney and Zetland, and presenting, in its constitution, the rude origin of a parliament.
43
And from which hill of Hoy, at midsummer, the sun may be seen, it is said, at midnight. So says the geographer Bleau, although, according to Dr. Wallace, it cannot be the true body of the sun which is visible, but only its image refracted through some watery cloud upon the horizon.
44
Note VIII. (#n_Note_VIII_13_13)– The Dwarfie Stone.
45
Note IX. (#n_Note_IX_13_13)– Carbuncle on the Ward-hill.
46
Or consecrated mountain, used by the Scandinavian priests for the purposes of their idol-worship.
47
Stack. A precipitous rock, rising out of the sea.
48
Skerry. A flat insulated rock, not subject to the overflowing of the sea.
49
Noup. A round-headed eminence.
50
Voe. A creek, or inlet of the sea.
51
Air. An open sea-beach.
52
Wick. An open bay.
53
Helyer. A cavern into which the tide flows.
54
Gio. A deep ravine which admits the sea.
55
This cruelty is practised by some fishers, out of a vindictive hatred to these ravenous fishes.
56
So placed in the old MS.
57
34
What is eat by way of relish to dry bread is called kitchen in Scotland, as cheese, dried fish, or the like relishing morsels.
35
See Hibbert’s Description of the Zetland Islands, p. 470.
36
See Note I. (#n_Note_I_2_13)– Norse Fragments.
37
Montrose, in his last and ill-advised attempt to invade Scotland, augmented his small army of Danes and Scottish Royalists, by some bands of raw troops, hastily levied, or rather pressed into his service, in the Orkney and Zetland Isles, who, having little heart either to the cause or manner of service, behaved but indifferently when they came into action.
38
Here, as afterwards remarked in the text, the Zetlander’s memory deceived him grossly. Sir John Urry, a brave soldier of fortune, was at that time in Montrose’s army, and made prisoner along with him. He had changed so often that the mistake is pardonable. After the action, he was executed by the Covenanters; and
“Wind-changing Warwick then could change no more”
Strachan commanded the body by which Montrose was routed.
39
Note VII. (#n_Note_VII_11_13)– The Sword-Dance.
40
See some admirable discussion on this passage, in the Variorum Shakspeare.
41
The contest about the whale will remind the poetical reader of Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands.
42
The Lawting was the Comitia, or Supreme Court, of the country, being retained both in Orkney and Zetland, and presenting, in its constitution, the rude origin of a parliament.
43
And from which hill of Hoy, at midsummer, the sun may be seen, it is said, at midnight. So says the geographer Bleau, although, according to Dr. Wallace, it cannot be the true body of the sun which is visible, but only its image refracted through some watery cloud upon the horizon.
44
Note VIII. (#n_Note_VIII_13_13)– The Dwarfie Stone.
45
Note IX. (#n_Note_IX_13_13)– Carbuncle on the Ward-hill.
46
Or consecrated mountain, used by the Scandinavian priests for the purposes of their idol-worship.
47
Stack. A precipitous rock, rising out of the sea.
48
Skerry. A flat insulated rock, not subject to the overflowing of the sea.
49
Noup. A round-headed eminence.
50
Voe. A creek, or inlet of the sea.
51
Air. An open sea-beach.
52
Wick. An open bay.
53
Helyer. A cavern into which the tide flows.
54
Gio. A deep ravine which admits the sea.
55
This cruelty is practised by some fishers, out of a vindictive hatred to these ravenous fishes.
56
So placed in the old MS.
57
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