Deerness Peninsula On Visit To The Mainland Of The Orkney Islands Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Deerness Peninsula on visit to the mainland of the Orkney Islands. Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, novelist and translator, was born on 15 May 1887 at the farm of Folly in Deerness, the same parish in which his mother was born. The family then moved to the island of Wyre, followed by a return to the Mainland, Orkney. In 1901, when he was 14, his father lost his farm, and the family moved to Glasgow. In quick succession his father, two brothers, and his mother died within the space of a few years. In 1919, Muir married Willa Anderson, and the couple moved to London, England. About this, Muir wrote simply " My marriage was the most fortunate event in my life. " Willa and her new husband worked together on many translations. Notable among them were their translation of works by Franz Kafka.. Between 1921 and 1923, Muir lived in Prague, Dresden, Italy, Salzburg and Vienna; he returned to the United Kingdom in 1924. Between 1925 and 1956, Edwin published seven volumes of poetry which were collected after his death and published in 1991. In 1939 in St Andrews, Fife, Muir had a religious experience and from then onwards thought of himself as Christian. In 1955 he was made Norton Professor of English at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, America. He returned to Britain in 1956 but died in 1959 at Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire, and was buried there. His wife Willa died at Dunoon in 1970. The Brough of Deerness is a well preserved Viking Age settlement set atop a high sea stack. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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