Minisode 7 - The Merwife of Shetland

In the Stories from the Hearth minisodes, Calum reads a classic story from the public domain - be it fable, fairy-tale, legend or moral; European, or International. In minisode seven, they read their very own, original version of 'The Merwife of Shetland', an ancient folktale regarding the seal-people (or selkies) of the seas surrounding Scotland. In the tale, a merwoman is dancing upon the beaches of Unst, in north Shetland, when a local man steals her sealskin, thus binding her to the earth and forcing her to become his husband. What follows is an account of her life on land, and her attempts to escape back to the sea...

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