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== References == ;Notes {{Notelist}} ;Citations {{reflist|30em|refs= <ref name=bicket>{{cite book|last=Bicket |first=Linden |author-link=<!--Linden Bicket--> |title=George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination |volume=3 |place=Edinburgh |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2017 |isbn=9781474411677 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jVYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT149}}, "Chapter 3: Mary": n15</ref> <ref name="brudord-fiddler-o-gord">{{citation|last=Bruford |first=Alan |author-link=<!--Alan Bruford--> |title=The Fiddler o Gord |journal=Tocher |volume=26 |date=1977 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XC4FAQAAIAAJ&q=Gord |pages=104–105}}</ref> <ref name="bruford-vanwinkle">{{citation|last=Bruford |first=Alan |author-link=<!--Alan Bruford--> |title=Caught in the Fairy Dance. Rip van Winkle's Scottish Grandmother and Her Relations |journal=Béaloideas |volume=62/63 |issue=<!--Glórtha ón Osnádúr: Páipéir a cuireadh i láthair ag an Siompósium Nordach-Ceilteach / Sounds from the Supernatural: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1994/1995)--> |date=1994–1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_8hAQAAMAAJ&q=dust |page=8<!--1–28--> |doi=10.2307/20522440 |jstor=20522440 |quote=The story of the fiddler who spends a hundred years with the fairies and comes home to crumble into dust may be combined with another motif, popular especially in Sheltand, the tune learned from the fairies..}}. Citing ''Shetland [[Folk Book]]'' 3 (tune is 'Ahint da Daeks o Voe') and 5 ("Trowie Spring").</ref> <ref name="ben-macfarlane&mitchell-edd">{{cite book|editor-last1=MacFarlane |editor-first1=Walter |editor-last2=Mitchell |editor-first2=Arthur |last=Ben |first=Jo. |chapter=Ben's Orkney |title=Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland |volume=3 |place=Edinburgh |publisher=Scottish History Society |year=1908 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEgNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA304 |pages=303–304, 315}} {{in lang|la|en}}</ref> <ref name="calder&macdonald">{{citation |last1=Calder |first1=Charles S. T. |author1-link=Charles S. T. Calder |last2=MacDonald |first2=George |author2-link=Sir George Macdonald |title=The Dwarfie Stane, Hoy, Orkney: its period and purpose. Note on 'Jo. Ben' and the Dwarfie Stane |journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland |volume=70 |year=1936 |url=http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_070/70_217_236.pdf |pages=220 |doi=10.9750/PSAS.070.217.236 |s2cid=257306583 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> <ref name="charlton1832">{{citation|last= Charlton|first=Edward, M. D.|author-link=Edward Charlton (historian) |title=A Visit to Shetland in 1832|editor1-last=Johnston |editor1-first=Alfred Wintle |editor1-link=<!--Alfred Wintle Johnston (25 September 1859–19 February 1947), founder of Viking Society--> |editor2-last=Johnston |editor2-first=Amy |editor2-link=<!--Amy Johnston, wife, née Leslie--> |work=Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland |volume=8 |location=London |publisher=Viking Society for Northern Research |date=1920 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXI_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA124 |page=124}}</ref> <ref name="cooke">{{citation|last=Cooke |first=Peter R. |author-link=<!--Peter R. Cooke--> |chapter=Chapter 3: The Fiddlerr's repertoire |title=The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1986 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GA49AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA50 |page=50 |isbn=<!--0521268559, -->9780521268554}}</ref> <ref name="dalyell">{{citation|last=Dalyell |first=John Graham, Sir |author-link=John Graham Dalyell |title= Popular Tales of the West Highlands, orally collected (New edition)|volume=1|location=Glasgow |publisher=Richard Griffin |date=1835 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4hFbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA544 |page=544}}</ref> <ref name="edmonston">{{citation|last=Edmondston |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Edmondston |title=An Etymological Glossary of the Shetland & Orkney Dialect |publisher=Adam and Charles Black |year=1866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V0Q5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA131 |pages=131–2}}</ref> <ref name="egede">{{cite book|last=Egede |first=Hans |author-link=Hans Egede |chapter=Kap. VI. Hvad Slags Diur, Fiske og Fugle den Grønlandske Søe giver af sig etc. / § Andre Søe-Diur |title=Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration,..<!-- eller Naturelhistorie, og beskrivelse over det gamle Grønlands situation, luøft, temperament og beskaffenhed ...--> |location=Copenhagen |publisher=Groth |date=1741 |orig-date=1729 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrRgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48 |page=48 (footnote) |language=da}}</ref> <ref name="fiddlers-companion">{{cite web |title=The Fiddler's Companion |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/WIN_WIZ.htm#WINYADEPLA |publisher=ibiblio.org |access-date=7 July 2014}}</ref> <ref name="hillers">{{citation|last=Hillers |first=Barbara |author-link=<!--Barbara Hillers--> |title=Music from the Otherworld: Modern Gaelic Legends about Fairy Music |journal=Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium |volume=14 |date=1994 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m10pAQAAIAAJ&q=%22wisna+laached+at+him%22 |pages=65–66<!--58–75-->|jstor=20557275|isbn=9780964244641 }}</ref> <ref name="jakobsen-drow">{{citation|last=Jakobsen |first=Jakob |author-link=Jakob Jakobsen |chapter=drow |title=Etymologisk ordbog over det norrøne sprog på Shetland |publisher=Prior |year=1921 |chapter-url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89099475378?urlappend=%3Bseq=175 |page=123 |hdl=2027/wu.89099475378?urlappend=%3Bseq=175 }}</ref> <ref name="jamieson-dict-trow">{{citation|last=Jamieson |first=John |author-link=John Jamieson |chapter=Trow |title=An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language |edition=New |volume=IV |year=1882 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v__lC29_568C&pg=PA631}}</ref> <ref name="johnston1896">{{citation|last=Johnston |first=Alfred W. |author-link=<!--Alfred Wintle Johnston (1859-1947), architect, founder of the Viking Club, antiquary--> |title=The' Dwarfie Stone' of Hoy, Orkney |journal=The Reliquary and Illustrated Archæologist |volume=2 |series=new series |date=1896 |page=100<!--84–101-->}}</ref> <ref name="korobzow">{{citation|last=Korobzow |first=Natalie |author-link=<!--Natalie Korobzow--> |title=Nynorn: Die Rekonstruktion des Norn |journal=Dialectologia et Geolinguistica |volume=24 |issue=1 |date=<!--17 Nov -->2016 |pages=126–144 |url=<!--n/a--> |doi=10.1515/dialect-2016-0007 |doi-access=free }}</ref> <ref name="kvam">{{citation|last=Kvam|first=Lorentz Normann |author-link=:no:Lorentz N. Kvam |chapter=krekin, krechin |title=Trollene grynter i haugen |publisher=Nasjonalforlaget |year=1936 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uAnrAAAAMAAJ&q=troll+sp%C3%B8kelser |page=131 |quote=Den sier at med ekte troll forståes : a ) jutuler og riser , b ) gjengangere og spøkelser , - c ) nisser og dverger , d ) bergtroll |language=no}}</ref> <ref name="larrington">{{cite book|last=Larrington |first=Carolyne |author-link=Carolyne Larrington |chapter=The Beast & the Human |title=The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2017 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PhKMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |pages=37–38, 106 |isbn=9780857727305}}</ref> <ref name="mowat">{{harvp|Marwick, H.|1933b|p=186}}; Offprint (1931) [https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/81170503?mode=transcription p. 12]</ref> <ref name="orkney-handbook">{{cite book|author=Anonymous |title=Hand-Book to the Orkney Islands. Illustrated |location=Kirkwall |publisher=William Peace |year=1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbdYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA95 |page=95}}</ref> <ref name="pontoppidan-eng">{{cite book|last=Pontoppidan |first=Erich |author-link=Erik Pontoppidan |chapter=Ch. 8. Sect. 11. Kraken, or Korven [sic.], the largest creature in the world /Sect. 12. Description |title=The Natural History of Norway...: Translated from the Danish Original |volume=2 |location=London |publisher=A. Linde |date=1755 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OglUqRf_soC&pg=RA1-PA214 |page=214 |quote=..some sea-faring people call Soe-draulen, that is, Soe-trolden[, Sea-mischief].}}</ref> <ref name=richardsons-letters>{{cite book|editor1-last=Probyn |editor1-first=Clive |editor1-link=<!--Clive Probyn -->|editor2-last=Steele |editor2-first=Bruce |editor2-link=<!--Bruce Steele --> |title=Henry Handel Richardson: The Letters |volume=1 |location=Carlton, Victoria |publisher=Miegunyah Press |year=2000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sz5bAAAAMAAJ&q=drow |isbn=978-0-52284-797-0 |page=27}}</ref> .<ref name="scott">{{citation|last=Scott |first=Walter, Sir |author-link=Walter Scott |title=Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Richard Griffin |orig-year=1830 |date=1884 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA104 |page=104}}</ref> (orig. pub. Glasgow: Richard Griffin, 1830) <ref name="snd-drow">''Scottish National Dictionary'' (1976) s.v. "[https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/drow_n3 drow]"</ref> <ref name="snd-trow">''Scottish National Dictionary'' (1976) s.v. "[https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/trow_n1 trow]"</ref> <ref name="teit">{{citation |last=Teit |first=J. A. |author-link=James Teit |title=Water-Beings in Shetlandic Folk-Lore |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |volume=31 |issue=120 |year=1918 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1cxNAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA180 |page=196<!--180–201--> |doi=10.2307/534874 |jstor=534874}}</ref> <ref name="UIB-troll">{{cite web|url=https://ordbok.uib.no/perl/ordbok.cgi?OPP=troll&ant_bokmaal=5&ant_nynorsk=5&begge=+&ordbok=begge |title=troll |website=Bokmålsordboka {{!}} Nynorskordboka |accessdate=2022-02-06}}</ref> <ref name="ui-ogain">{{citation|last=Uí Ógáin |first=Ríonach |author-link=<!--Ríonach Uí Ógáin--> |title=Music Learned from the Fairies |journal=Béaloideas |volume=60/61 |issue=<!--Finscealta Agus Litriocht: Paipeir a cuireadh i lathair ag an Siompoisiam Nordach-Ceiltech / Legends and Fiction: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1992/1993)-->|date=1992–1993 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_8hAQAAMAAJ&q=trow |pages=197–214 |doi=10.2307/20522407 |jstor=20522407}}</ref> }} '''Bibliography''' {{refbegin}} * {{citation |last=Briggs |first=Katharine Mary |author-link=:en:Katharine Mary Briggs |title=An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures |location=New York |publisher=Pantheon |year=1977 |url=https://archive.org/details/BriggsKatharineMaryAnEncyclopediaOfFairies/page/n267/mode/2up }} (U.S. version of ''A Dictionary of Fairies'', London: Penguin. 1976) * {{citation |ref={{SfnRef|Dennison, W. 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