Shetland Folk-Lore
the women with the Sybil in their midst sang the Vardloker.
“The Broch of West Burrafirth, built in the head of the voe and connected with the land by a bridge of large steppingstones over which the sea flows at full tide, was still in fair preservation when I last saw it, several feet of the walls, built of large stones, still standing. I think it has been inhabited by the early Vikings, and has been in its day a place of importance, something like Mousa.
“There was also a broch at Nounsbro’, Aithsting, but nothing remains of it except the site.
“At Culswick, Sandsting, there was a large broch similar to that at Easter, all now in a heap of ruins. The district is out of the way, and I am not aware if an examination of it has ever been made. But there is another and much more ancient broch at Seffster, Sandsting,—an underground one, and of a kind existing in several parishes in Shetland. They are
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