These six stories lead back to Orkney's past and to fables. To break a siege of the Broch of Guirness, unlikely champions come forward for single combat. Njalsay is seen through the eyes of a poor idiot laird misunderstood by his people, and a poet becomes laureate by embracing silence.
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George Mackay Brown was one of the greatest Scottish writers of the twentieth century. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, he was also an accomplished novelist and a master of the short story. He died at the age of 74 on 13 April 1996.
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