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Bield

/bēld/

Authors

Dr Amanda Thomson

Languages

Scots
To protect; to shelter; to take refuge.

Further Reading

A Dictionary of the Scottish Language by John Jamieson [abridged, 1846]

Text

19th century usage, as a verb: to protect; to shelter; to take refuge; to supply; to support. As a noun: a shelter, a refuge, a home, house; anything that shelters or shades.

Media

Skara Brae chambers 1–7, Orkney, Image: V. Gordon Childe and J. Wilson Paterson (Provisional Report on the Excavations at Skara Brae and on Finds from the 1927 and 1928 Campaigns, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, February 11, 1929)

Questions & Provocations

What do we mean by shelter, ideas of home?
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What do we mean by communities and how we protect them?
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