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Old Photograph Mid Yell Shetland Scotland
Old photograph of Mid Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. This is the largest village on the island of Yell, located at the head of Mid Yell Voe on the B9081 road about a mile from its junction with the A968 road. Like all good Northern islands, Yell has its trolls, known in the Northern Isles as " trows " or " trowes ". The Trow of Windhouse was about as recently as the 1880s, when a shipwrecked sailor claimed he had been attacked by the mythical monster. However, the sailor was courageous enough to fight the creature, and saw it off with an axe. It is said that where he killed the trow, the grass turned a light green. This was not the only trow by any means, and there is another story of a Yell woman coming upon a family of trowes, who later woke up to find one in the house, asking who he was, he said " I am Trippa's son ". The woman said a prayer, and the trowe disappeared.
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