User talk:Jonrysh

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Selkie ballad

Jonrysh: Sorry, I don't have readily available a fully annotated version of the 7 strophes of "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry".

The edition printed here[1] suggests that in subsequent strophes the only real tricky word to understand is "aught"="have a child by me".

I am not exactly fluent in Scots, but after examining a few ballads you get accustomed to some commonly occurring words.

If you are stumped, I suggest you just make use of the Dictionary of the Scots Language web dictionary (https://dsl.ac.uk/). --Kiyoweap (talk) 03:48, 30 June 2021 (UTC)