WALTER TRAILL DENNISON

Walter Traill Dennison (1825-94) was a farmer and a folklorist. He was a native of the Orkney Island of Sanday in Scotland, where he collected folk tales and other antiquities, transforming into prose the stories he almost exclusively recorded from the peasantry of his native island. He was brought up at North Myre and later was a tenant in the farm of Brough. He published the folk stories, many in the local Orcadian dialect, in 1880 under the title, ‘The Orcadian Sketch Book.’ Married with one daughter, he died on 3rd September 1894 after a short illness, aged 69.

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