Vidlin (from
Old Norse
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: ''Vaðill'' meaning a ford) is a small village located on
Mainland
Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it egardless of status under territorial jurisdiction by an entity" The term is often politically, economically and/or dem ...
, Shetland, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of
Nesting.
History
![Vidlin and Vidlin Voe - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Vidlin_and_Vidlin_Voe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_99966.jpg)
It is at the head of
Vidlin Voe
Vidlin (from Old Norse: ''Vaðill'' meaning a ford) is a small village located on Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Nesting.
History
It is at the head of Vidlin Voe, and is the modern heart of the old parish ...
, and is the modern heart of the old parish of Lunnasting, which centred on the early church at Lunna on
Lunna Ness
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.
The
Lunnasting stone
The Lunnasting stone is a stone bearing an ogham inscription, found at Lunnasting, Shetland and donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1876.
Discovery
The stone was found by Rev. J.C. Roger in a cottage, who stated that it ...
, which bears an undeciphered
Pictish
Pictish is the extinct Brittonic language spoken by the Picts, the people of eastern and northern Scotland from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Virtually no direct attestations of Pictish remain, short of a limited number of geographica ...
ogham inscription
Roughly 400 known ogham inscriptions are on stone monuments scattered around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the fifth and sixth centuries. Their language is predominantly Primitive Irish, but a few examples record fragments of the ...
was found nearby and donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1876.
Notable people
Steven Robertson
Steven Robertson (born 1 January 1977) is a Scottish actor who stars as Detective Sandy Wilson in the BBC One adaptation of Ann Cleeves's ''Shetland'', filmed near where Robertson was born and brought up. He portrayed Michael Connelly, a young ...
is a theatre and film actor who has appeared in a number of successful films. He was born in Vidlin and attended the local school.
The poet
Rhoda Bulter
Rhoda Bulter (15 July 1929 – 1994), Shetland author, is one of the best-known Shetland poets of recent times.
Biography
Born Rhoda Jernetta Ann Johnson, in Lerwick, she was the daughter of Jeremiah Johnson, seaman, from West Houlland in th ...
's mother came from Skelberry in Lunnasting, and she herself lived there for two crucially formative years when young.
The
Walls
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*The plural of wall, a structure
*Walls (surname), a list of notable people with the surname
Places
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poet
Christine de Luca
Christine De Luca (born 4 April 1947) is a Scottish poet and writer from Shetland, who writes in both English and Shetland dialect. Her poetry has been translated into many languages. She was appointed Edinburgh's Makar, or poet laureate from 2 ...
has written a memoir and a series of poems about the branch of her family which hailed from Vidlin, on her father Alexander Pearson's side, entitled ''Dreams in Time's Ocean'' (2004).
References
External links
The Lunnasting History GroupShetlopedia.com - Vidlin PagesSkyinbow Ltd
Villages in Mainland, Shetland
Thing (assembly)
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