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Voar: Scots word of the Week | HeraldScotland

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Scots Word of the Week

GRIMLINS
I HOPE folk attending the coming Orkney Folk Festival will have a good time, despite its virtual nature this year.
Whilst many Scots on the mainland would describe our lengthy summer twilight as the “gloaming”, in Orkney it is described as the “grimlins”. The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) defines it as “twilight, the first or last gleams of daylight”. The word is derived from Norwegian “grimla”, to “glimmer, twinkle, blink”.
In 1908, the DSL records this from the Old-Lore Miscellany of Orkney: “Bit alis, alis, whin da grimlins cam’ an’ he gaed tae geong hame feinty sheep nor shoon fand he”. Later, in 1922, John Firth writes in Reminiscences of an Orkney Parish (1922): “In the ‘grimmelings’ the youngsters were employed to strip the green peel off [the rushes] leaving the white pith, ‘as saft as silk’ which, swimming in sillock [coalfish] oil, barely made darkness visible.” ....

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