Vidlin (from

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: ''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 Vidlin (from Old Norse: ''Vaðill'' meaning a ford) is a small village located on Mainland, Shetland, Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Nesting, Shetland, Nesting. History It is at the head of Vidlin Voe, and ...

, and is the modern heart of the old parish of Lunnasting, which centred on the early church at Lunna on Lunna Ness. The Lunnasting stone, which bears an undeciphered

Pictish Pictish is an extinct Brittonic Celtic 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 geog ...

ogham inscription Roughly 400 inscriptions in the ogham alphabet are known from stone monuments scattered around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the fifth and sixth centuries. The language of these inscriptions is predominantly Primitive Irish, but a ...

was found nearby and donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1876.

Notable people

Steven Robertson 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's mother came from Skelberry in Lunnasting, and she herself lived there for two crucially formative years when young. The

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poet Christine de Luca 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).

Transport

Vidlin is served by service 19 that runs in the morning, at noon, and rush hour run by a J&DS Halcrow minibus. The Whalsay ferry sometimes departs from Vidlin Ferry Terminal in adverse weather conditions instead of its usual Laxo departure. The Out Skerries ferry departs from here on a bookings-only basis.

References

External links

The Lunnasting History GroupShetlopedia.com - Vidlin PagesSkyinbow Ltd
Villages in Mainland, Shetland Thing (assembly) {{Shetland-geo-stub