The very teapot, in Zetland always to be found at the fireside, speaks of home and woman, and reminds one of the sobriety of the people - that very important difference between them and the inhabitants of the hebridean islands.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
Mountainous billows which have travelled from afar out of the mysterious watery waste find their first impediment on the west of these isolated hebridean isles, and they fling themselves like mad things in full fury against the wild rocky islets fringing the coast.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
His father, John Storm Bull, was a pharmaceutist, and among his ancestors he numbered the Norwegian poet Edward Storm, author of the "Sinclair Lay," an epic on the fate of Colonel Sinclair, who with a thousand hebridean and Scotch pirates, made a descent on the Norwegian coast, thus emulating the Vikingr forefathers of the Norwegians themselves.
"Great Violinists And Pianists"
George T. Ferris