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- Herausgeber: BookRix
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
People snatching was a thing that happened at different times round the British Isles. The first raiders, the Vikings, in the eighth and ninth centuries took women and men as slaves, but later from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century there are recorded incidents from Southern Ireland and Cornwall, the Faroe Islands and even Iceland, of Barbary Pirates raiding the coast and taking people, sometimes whole villages, to sell in the slave markets of North Africa.
This story with speech in the local dialect is set in Orkney, an archipelago of seventy islands off the tip of the Scottish mainland.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
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People snatching was a thing that happened at different times round the British Isles. The first raiders, the Vikings, in the eighth and ninth centuries took women and men as slaves, but later from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century there are recorded incidents from Southern Ireland and Cornwall, the Faroe Islands and even Iceland, of Barbary Pirates raiding the coast and taking people, sometimes whole villages, to sell in the slave markets of North Africa.
Grandmother's Story.
I was fourteen years old. My grandmother and I used to sit and knit to pass the time in the long winter evenings. There was only her and me now. She talked in the old dialect still. My parents had been lost at sea returning to the island one stormy day. We had the croft; a few sheep, a planticru for cabbage and kale, tatties and a few hens. She was very fit and could work about the croft as well as any man.
While we were good friends and company I felt a great longing for a young man.
When I told grandmother this she smiled,
“Ah ken when Ah wis your age the sam thing cam on me. And Ah waandered by the shore lookin fur shells and queer things that might be washed up.
I always hid a bag over ma shooder for to pit things in. I carried some bread too. Ah collected herbs fur the bonesetter. Ah became pretty skilled at the herbs - ah kent whit would mak things heal, wit would help a fever, wit would mak ye sleep, wit might kill ye if ye wurna careful.
Waal, occasionally a fishing boat wid cum right in close to shelter but ah didna get to meet the lads; oor island had a rocky shore and if it was coorse wather they couldna land.
Ah got masel in a right steer thinking on lads and Ah swear Ah walked that beach hunders of times hoping a man wid appear. Not just ony man but a handsome young man jist fur me.
Noo ah wis quite a beauty then, me parents told me so, an some of the lads on the fishing boats had spied me too from the sea.
Ma hair wus jet black and long doon to ma waist. Ah wore something tight like, so’s the boys could see mah figure, an mah dress, well Ah hitched hid up when ah wis oot o the hoose so mah legs could be seen.
Waal it happened on a bright summers day, the sea wis blue and calm, jist a light breeze. Ah wis walkin in the waves waar they meet the sand, wan roond the point cam a large ship wi strange sails. Ah could see men on the deck pointing at me. Naebody had landed in me bay yit so Ah felt quite secure. Well Ah gave them a bit of a show, lifting ma dress up a little to show me legs mair. Ah took oot ma clasp and Ah tossed back mah hair.
Ah was so engrossed in lookin good ah didna notice the long boat as it came into the strand.
Fierce lookin men sprang oot and grabbed me and bundled me intae the boat.
