Sitting Out The Winter In The Orkney Islands: Folksong Acquisition in Northern Scotland

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Folklore, Indiana University, integrating a specific analysis of textual and melodic folkloric data from Orkney with a general discussion of cultural history and community life in Northern Scotland. The writer lived in orkney from 1976 to 1979, and returned for more fieldwork in 1983..