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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20070624
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NEW DELHI, India, June 24 -- One of Scotland's premier men of letters, Sir Walter Scott, travelled north to the Shetland Isles (he called them "Zetland"), in 1814. Scott was in search of a good story, and at the time, Shetland was seen as a rude backwater.

Scott construed the people's heritage as an imagined culture of witchcraft and incantation, vivid Viking-like fairytales, and hardy warrior-farmer characters. The tale that he produced was one of obsession, illicit love, and criminality, published as The Pirate, volume XIII of his Waverly Novels, in 1831.When I travelled to Shetland, I ...

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