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Simmer Sang

Categorised in: Poetry Spoken word
Shetland

The Scots Language Centre is marking midsummer with this reading of the Shetland dialect poem, Simmer Sang. Simmer Sang was written by Vagaland, the pen name of well-loved Shetland poet, Thomas Alexander Robertson.
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The poem has been selected by Laureen Johnson of Shetland Forwirds and is read by Robert Alan Jamieson.
The poem is reproduced with the kind permission of Shetland Museums and Archives.
Vagaland http://shetlopedia.com/Vagalan
Robert Alan Jamieson http://www.robertalanjamieson.
Shetland Museums and Archives http://www.shetland-museum.org




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