A Storytelling Landscape - The Islanders' Harvest Time - The Muckle Supper artwork
A Storytelling Landscape

A Storytelling Landscape - The Islanders' Harvest Time - The Muckle Supper

  • S1E4
  • 35:00
  • November 2nd 2022

We invite you on a magical journey through our Island Storytelling Landscape. 

The latest instalment is from the time of The Autumn Equinox when the islanders reaped the Harvest of their hard toil on the land.

Discover the Muckle Supper celebrations of past island crofters and their relationship with the lands around their Toonships.

Listen to the present owner of the Mill Of Eyrland and the heritage of the Mill as the heart of these Orkney Islands’ Toonships.’

Producer: Flow State Music

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Music: Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson

Thanks to the estate of George Mackay Brown for permission to use his words, poems and narratives, enriching the development of A Storytelling Landscape.

A Storytelling Landscape

A Storytelling Landscape | Digital. Folklore. Heritage. A series of podcasts and live streamed events from the Islands of Orkney. #YS2022

www.orkneystorytelling.com/astorytellinglandscape/