Tour Scotland very short 4K travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking by cliffs on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip by Westerwick mainland Shetland Islands, Britain, United Kingdom. Thomas Alexander Robertson was born on 6 March 1909 at Westerwick at the southern tip of the parish of Sandsting, his mother's home. He was the second son of Andrina Johnston and Thomas Robertson of Skeld, a merchant seaman. His father drowned before his first birthday, and his mother moved with her two sons to Stove in Waas. He grew up in hardship though his love for the land and the people overcame that. It was the old Norse name for the area Vagaland that he adopted as his pen name. A shy boy who adjusted with difficulty to the rough and tumble of school, he was nonetheless able both at physical and intellectual pursuits, and in time he excelled. He took his MA at the University of Edinburgh and was offered the possibility of postgraduate work at Oxford, which he turned down for financial reasons, instead becoming a teacher at the Lerwick Central School and carer to his ailing mother. In 1953, he married Martha (‘Pat’), daughter of the Reverend Robert Andrew, Church of Scotland minister in Walls for over 40 years, a girl he had known in childhood. He was a Poet and one of the writers who helped to establish The New Shetlander in 1947, and he was a key supporter of the journal for 27 years till his death on 30 December 1973. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. @tourscotland #scotland #shortsvideo #kilt #shetland
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