Scandinavian-Britain

260 SCANDINAVIAN BRITAINare occasionally lost ; phonetic changes like thosein Icelandic and Faeroese are dn for rn, dl anddn for //and nn ("kidn"for kinn, cheek; "godle"for gull, gold ;" ednin" for drnin, the eagle) ;butthe language differs from the Hebridean, not onlyin the absence of Gaelic, but also in the use ofScandinavian words other than those found in theWestern Islands, as "gronge" (grunningr) and not"torsk" for a cod. Low collected also the wellknownShetland rhyme, which Haegstad readsMyrk in e liora, Luce (= ljoss) in e liunga,Timin e guestin e geungna.When it's mirk in the chimney it's light on the ling,It's the time for the guest to be journeying.He gave also the Foula " Paternoster," which maybe compared with the old Orkney form given byWallace (English loan-words italicised):ShetlandOrkneyFy vor o er i chimeri, Fa vor I ir ichimeri,Halaght vara nam dit, Helleufr] ir nam i thite,La konungdum din cumma, Gilla (Gud lat) cosdumLa vill din vera guerde(? congdum) thite cumma,Veya thine mota varg gorti vrildin sen ( som) da er o yurn sinna gorti chimeri (= Himmerike), ichimeri,Gav vus dagh u dagloght brau, Ga vus da on da dalightbrow vora,Forgive sindor wara sin viFit-give vus sinna vora sin veeforgiva gem ao sinda gainst Jirgive sindara mutha vus,wus,Lia wus eke o vera tempa, Lyv vus ye i tumtation,but delivra wus fro adlu idlu, min delivra yus fro olt ilt,For doi irkonungdum,\\puri, \\glori, Amen.Amen.More than a hundred years later than Low's time