Stromness – Spirit of the Sea is a three-part storytelling series from Orkney, blending folklore, legend, and history with immersive soundscapes. Told by Lynn Barbour and produced by Kyle Wilson (Flow State Music).

Step into Orkney’s sea-salted past in the first chapter of Stromness – Spirit of the Sea. Storyteller Lynn Barbour shares legends, maritime heritage, and folklore.

Featuring words of George Mackay Brown (used with permission).

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Music: Fiona Driver

We invite you on a magical journey through our Island Storytelling Landscape.

The latest instalment is from the time of The Autumn Equinox when the islanders reaped the Harvest of their hard toil on the land.

Discover the Muckle Supper celebrations of past island crofters and their relationship with the lands around their Toonships.

Listen to the present owner of the Mill Of Eyrland and the heritage of the Mill as the heart of these Orkney Islands’ Toonships.’

Producer: Flow State Music

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Music: Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson

Thanks to the estate of George Mackay Brown for permission to use his words, poems and narratives, enriching the development of A Storytelling Landscape.

We may not have sat for long Winter evenings listening to the spontaneous flow of old tales, but we hope that you enjoy listening to our 'Midsummer Magic in the Orkney Islands - The Happening Podcast .

Those Island Tellers of Tales from Orkney's past days had no doubt that their fireside hearers believed in what they heard......

George Mackay Brown wrote: 'The essence of Orkney's magic is silence, loneliness and the deep marvellous rhythms of sea and land, darkness and light'.

We invite you on a magical journey through our Island Storytelling Landscape.

Producer: Flow State Music

Storyteller: Lynn Barbour

Music: Fiona Driver & Graham Simpson