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A 12th-century Shetland fishwife inspires a Viking earl to write a poem of great humility.

A fishwife spurs a Norse Earl to coin a poem of great humility. A story inspired by Shetland's Viking past. Read by Paul Young.

A bold fishwife inspires a Viking Earl to write a poem of great humility. Short story set in twelfth century Shetland by George Mackay Brown.


One of the major figures of Scottish twentieth century literature, George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996) was a prolific poet and novelist who took much of his inspiration from the culture, history and landscape of the Northern Isles. "The Masked Fisherman" appears in the story collection of the same title.


Read by Paul Young.


Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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