Selkie (English Wikipedia)

selkie simply means "seal" in Scots. Bruford (1974), p. 78, note 1. Bruford (1997), p. 120. Bruford, Alan (1974). "The Grey Selkie". Scottish Studies. 18: 63–81. Bruford, Alan (1997). "Trolls, Hillfolks, Finns and Picts". In Narvez, Peter (ed.). The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-0-8131-0939-8.
Bruford (1974), p. 78, note 1: "A selkie is simply a seal, though readers of the ballad [on the selkie] have tended to assume that in itself it means a seal which can take human form". Bruford (1997), p. 120: "'selkie' in itself does not imply the ability to take human form any more than 'seal' does". Bruford, Alan (1974). "The Grey Selkie". Scottish Studies. 18: 63–81. Bruford, Alan (1997). "Trolls, Hillfolks, Finns and Picts". In Narvez, Peter (ed.). The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-0-8131-0939-8.
Dennison (1893), p. 173. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Jón Árnason (1866). Icelandic Legends Collected by Jón Árnason. Translated by George E. J. Powell; Eiríkr Magnússon. London: Longman, Green, and Co. pp. xliii–xliv.; [Islenzkar þjóđsögur] I, pp. XII–XIV
Dennison (1893), pp. 172–173. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Bruford (1997), p. 121. Bruford, Alan (1997). "Trolls, Hillfolks, Finns and Picts". In Narvez, Peter (ed.). The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-0-8131-0939-8.
Child, Francis James, ed. (1886). "113 The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry". The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Vol. II. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin. p. 494.
Blind, Karl (1881). "Scottish, Shetlandic, and Germanic Water Tales (Part II)". The Contemporary Review. 40: 403–405.
Westwood, Jennifer & Kingshill, Sophia (2011). The Lore of Scotland: A guide to Scottish legends. Arrow Books. pp. 404–405. ISBN 9780099547167.
Dennison (1893), p. 172. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Hiestand (1992), p. 331: "Those are always the basic ingredients: an unmarried farmer, a seal-skin, a naked woman in the waves". Hiestand, Emily Hiestand (Summer 1992). "South of the Ultima Thule". The Georgia Review. 46 (2): 289–343. JSTOR 41400296
Shetland version localized in Unst: Hibbert (1891), pp. 262–263; Keightley (1850), pp. 169–171: "The Mermaid Wife". Hibbert, Samuel (1891) [1822]. A Description of the Shetland Islands. T. & J. Manson. p. 261. Keightley, Thomas (1850) [1828], The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of various Countries (new revised ed.), H. G. Bohn, pp. 167–171
Dennison (1893), pp. 173–175. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Kennedy, Capt. Clark (July 1884). "Wild Sport in the Orkney Isles". Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. 42: 355–356, 406–407.
Hiestand (1992), p. 332. Hiestand, Emily Hiestand (Summer 1992). "South of the Ultima Thule". The Georgia Review. 46 (2): 289–343. JSTOR 41400296
Pottinger (1908), "Selkie Wife" (from Deerness, Orkney), p. 175. Pottinger, J. A. (1908), "The Selkie Wife", Orkney and Shetland Miscellany, vol. 1, no. 5, Viking Club, pp. 173–175
Dennison (1893), pp. 175–176: Dennison believed it to be "an imaginary tale, invented by gossips". Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Dennison (1893), p. 176. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
McEntire (2007), p. 128. McEntire, Nancy Cassell (2007). "Supernatural Beings in the Far North: Folklore, Folk Belief, and the Selkie". Scottish Studies. 35: 120–143. doi:10.2218/ss.v35.2692.
Wimberly, Louis Charles (1921). Minstrelsy, Music, and the Dance in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism, 4. Lincoln: U of Nebraska. p. 89.
Pottinger (1908), pp. 173–175 Pottinger, J. A. (1908), "The Selkie Wife", Orkney and Shetland Miscellany, vol. 1, no. 5, Viking Club, pp. 173–175
Hibbert (1891), pp. 262–263; Keightley (1850), pp. 167–169: "Gioga's son". Hibbert, Samuel (1891) [1822]. A Description of the Shetland Islands. T. & J. Manson. p. 261. Keightley, Thomas (1850) [1828], The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of various Countries (new revised ed.), H. G. Bohn, pp. 167–171
Bruford (1997), pp. 121–122. Bruford, Alan (1997). "Trolls, Hillfolks, Finns and Picts". In Narvez, Peter (ed.). The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-0-8131-0939-8.
McEntire (2007), p. 126. McEntire, Nancy Cassell (2007). "Supernatural Beings in the Far North: Folklore, Folk Belief, and the Selkie". Scottish Studies. 35: 120–143. doi:10.2218/ss.v35.2692.
Monaghan, Patricia (2009). The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore. Infobase Publishing. p. 411. ISBN 978-1438110370.
Berry, Robert James; Firth, Howie N. (1986). The People of Orkney. Orkney Press. pp. 172, 206. ISBN 9780907618089.. Cited by Bruford (1997), p. 122 Bruford, Alan (1997). "Trolls, Hillfolks, Finns and Picts". In Narvez, Peter (ed.). The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-0-8131-0939-8.
Bruford (1997), p. 122. Bruford, Alan (1997). "Trolls, Hillfolks, Finns and Picts". In Narvez, Peter (ed.). The Good People: New Fairylore Essays. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-0-8131-0939-8.
Spence, Lewis (1972) [1948]. The Minor Traditions of British Mythology. Ayer Publishing. pp. 50–56. ISBN 9780405089893.
Ása Helga Ragnarsdóttir, assistant lecturer at University of Iceland, cited in Booth, David (2014). Exploding the Reading: Building a world of responses from one story. Markham, Ontario: Pembroke Publishers. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8131-0939-8. .
Domhnall Ó Murchadha Rannscéalta (1920), cited by Gilchrist (1921), p. 263 Gilchrist, A. G. (January 1921). "Extra Note on Song No. 48, verse 7". Journal of the Folk-Song Society. 6 (2). Freeman, A. Martin: 266 (263–266). JSTOR 4434091
Kinahan G. H., "Connemara Folk-Lore", Folk-Lore Journal II: 259; Folklore Record IV: 104. Cited and quoted by Gomme, G. L. (June 1889). "Totemism in Britain". Archaeological Review. 3 (4): 219–220.
Gomme (1889), p. 219, n3, citing Joyce, P. W. (1883) Origin and History of Irish Names of Places 2: 290.
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Garry, Jane; El-Shamy, Hasan (2005). "Animal brides and grooms". Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature. M.E. Sharpe. p. 97. ISBN 9780765629531. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
Brown, George Mackay (1983), "Sealskin", A Time to Keep and Other Stories, New York, Vanguard Press, pp. 172–173, cited in Hiestand (1992), p. 330. Hiestand, Emily Hiestand (Summer 1992). "South of the Ultima Thule". The Georgia Review. 46 (2): 289–343. JSTOR 41400296

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McEntire (2007), p. 128. McEntire, Nancy Cassell (2007). "Supernatural Beings in the Far North: Folklore, Folk Belief, and the Selkie". Scottish Studies. 35: 120–143. doi:10.2218/ss.v35.2692.
McEntire (2007), p. 126. McEntire, Nancy Cassell (2007). "Supernatural Beings in the Far North: Folklore, Folk Belief, and the Selkie". Scottish Studies. 35: 120–143. doi:10.2218/ss.v35.2692.
Bengt af Klintberg, 'Scandinavian Folklore Parallels to the Narrative about Selkolla in Guðmundar saga biskups ,' in Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition, ed. by Daviel Sävborg and Karen Bek-Pedersen, Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes, 1 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 59-74 doi:10.1484/M.BBL-EB.5.116080; ISBN 978-2-503-57531-5.

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Dennison (1893), p. 173. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Dennison (1893), pp. 172–173. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Dennison (1893), p. 172. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Hiestand (1992), p. 331: "Those are always the basic ingredients: an unmarried farmer, a seal-skin, a naked woman in the waves". Hiestand, Emily Hiestand (Summer 1992). "South of the Ultima Thule". The Georgia Review. 46 (2): 289–343. JSTOR 41400296
Dennison (1893), pp. 173–175. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Hiestand (1992), p. 332. Hiestand, Emily Hiestand (Summer 1992). "South of the Ultima Thule". The Georgia Review. 46 (2): 289–343. JSTOR 41400296
Dennison (1893), pp. 175–176: Dennison believed it to be "an imaginary tale, invented by gossips". Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Dennison (1893), p. 176. Dennison, W. Traill (1893). "Orkney Folk-Lore". The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries. 7: 171–177. JSTOR 25516580
Domhnall Ó Murchadha Rannscéalta (1920), cited by Gilchrist (1921), p. 263 Gilchrist, A. G. (January 1921). "Extra Note on Song No. 48, verse 7". Journal of the Folk-Song Society. 6 (2). Freeman, A. Martin: 266 (263–266). JSTOR 4434091
Brown, George Mackay (1983), "Sealskin", A Time to Keep and Other Stories, New York, Vanguard Press, pp. 172–173, cited in Hiestand (1992), p. 330. Hiestand, Emily Hiestand (Summer 1992). "South of the Ultima Thule". The Georgia Review. 46 (2): 289–343. JSTOR 41400296

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