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Riddles and rhymes. The contributor pronounces a couple of words with a Fair Isle accent and recites a couple of guddicks [formulaic riddles]. She follows this with a counting rhyme.

Dances and weddings The contributor lists dances that were common in Fair Isle. These were all learned in the hall as there was no dancing taught at school. She describes the way the Shetland reel...

Fair Isle lighthouses. The lighthouses in Fair Isle are named after the areas on which they are built. The names are of Norse origin and the contributor tells of a Norse visitor to Fair Isle who c...

A message from the contributors for someone called Pat. Pat left a message in their visitor book, written in Shetland dialect, during a visit to Fair Isle in 1948.