Linklater, Eric White Maa's Saga , Loanhead: Macdonald, 1983Reprint. Beige cloth, gilt Pagination: 284. From the highlands and islands of Scotland they come to the University of Inverdoon, where Peter Flett finds the pursuit of medicine rather worse than the War.<P>To ‘Whit-Maa’ - as his people in Orkney dub Peter Flett - women are ‘either cooks or harlots’. But even modern Vikings are susceptible to beauty as to wine, and Peter’s two love affairs are touched with poetry. His Saga begins in the rough-house of student humour; but it passes through deeper experience with an old-time Norse wooing in which Peter visits his lady by night; and culminates in danger and tragedy with a man-killing on the island of Hoy.. Book: slight browning to margins (as usual), upper edge a little dusty VG, Jacket: upper edge slightly creased, VG+ (Book ref. 2890 ) £ 13.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, www.oldscottishbooks.com , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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