Northern Isles

plural noun

I have but just returned upon a galleon plying between this port and that of the northern isles.

Once we were a great nation, and spread over all the Northern Isles.

It was in summer, when there is no night among these Northern Isles.

What indeed astonishes the visitor to these northern isles is the immense number of ecclesiastical ruins.

A name in our northern isles for the Fucus loreus, a narrow thong-shaped sea-weed.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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