ON THE GIBBOUS GUISING MOON
Missive changes for the witches' new year
In this missive:
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In the Devil’s Name at Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable
I’m on an episode of Farstraers on BBC Radio Orkney
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The Witches’ New Year—Halloween or Samhain—quickly approaches. I’m shifting focus, and I think you’ll like this new direction for Missives from the Verge.
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An excerpt of my new book, Ashes and Stones, appears at Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable. You can read it here.
BBC Radio Orkney is serialising Jocelyn Rendall’s fascinating book Farstraers. I was on the first episode of this six part series. I chatted with Ragnhild Ljosland and Fran Frett Holirake about the Orkney Memorial to the victims of the witch hunts. You can listen to the episode here.
Jocelyn Rendall is a local historian living on Papay, or Papa Westray, and Farstraers is her masterful examination of hundreds of years of letters in the Orkney archives. Farstraers is an Orcadian word meaning emigrants or ‘far-strayers.’ In Jocelyn’s book this straying is also metaphorical in cases where women transgressed the narrow confines of behaviour dictated by the Kirk. This will be of special interest to anyone with Orkney ancestry, or with an interested in the history of regular folk and the words they have left. Jocelyn brings these to fragments life.
