Shetland Folk Tales

The Fetlar Finnman; The Netted Mermaid; The Laughing Merman; The Mermaid Who Loved a Fisherman; The Blacksmith and the Njuggel; Martha; The Seal on the Vee Skerries; Maillie and the Trow; The White Cat; The Raven; The Fiddler and the Cows; Tommy and the Wicked Witch; The Butter Stone; Witch Against Witch; A Spanish Ship Visits; The Fairy's Wine Well; The Gloup Disaster; Flokki of the Ravens; The Cow Killers; The Marriage of Hughie Brown; The Half Gruney Lasses; Gibby Law; Sheep Thieves; The First Midges; Da Hallamas Mareel; Ursula; The Mouse and the Wren; Ruud; The Sad End of Grotti Finnie; The Cats and the Christening; Einar the Fowler; Erik and the Shark; The Boy that Came from the Ground; The Poisoned Sixpence; Black Eric of Fitful Head; The Eagle and the Child; The Minister's Meeting; Singna Geo; The Death of James Smith; Sigmund of Gord; The Woman with the Red Hand; The Snuff Taker; The Three Yells; The Funeral Ghosts; The Skull; Norway's First Troll; Midwife to the Trow; Katie Lottie; Kidnapped by the Trows; Feeling the Trows; Winyadepla; The Borrowed Boat; Christmas at Windhouse; Farkar's Pig; In Aboot da Nite.

Being separate from the Scottish mainland, the Shetland Isles have a rich and unique tradition of folklore, from selkies to invading giants to Vikings. This book brings together for the first time may tales of the Isles, including The Boy Who Came from the Ground, and Norway's First Troll, among many others.