Crossword-Solution: ISLESMAN 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The human nature which he paints, he had seen in all its phases, gentle and simple, in burgher and shepherd, Highlander, Lowlander, Borderer, and Islesman; he had come into close contact with it, he had opened it to himself by the talisman of his joyous and winning presence; he had studied it thoroughly with a clear eye and an all-embracing heart.

Nor stayed his awful brand, but left and right Whirled he its bloody flamings in the sun, And men went down as in October woods Do crash the mighty trunks before the blast, Till all were slain but one grim islesman left.

And, with one awful shout of battle joy, He sent his sword-blade wheeling in the sun, And cleft that mighty islesman to the neck; And crying, “Arthur!” smote the earth, and died.

The imagination does not move like flame among intricate calculations, though the mind may be compelled and convinced; and some of us at least would learn more of the tides and their occult nature and laws from an old islesman telling of _lionadh_ and _srùth-mara_ than from the bewildering maze of the five-and-fifty columns which the _Encyclopædia Britannica_ devotes to the subject.

How much more I value what I have heard from some shepherd on the wide dark moors, or from some islesman in a fishing-coble or drifting wherry, on moonless nights filled with a skyey ‘phosphorescence’ as radiant as that a-dance and a-gleam in the long seethe of the wake of a ship, than what I have found concerning scientific star-names in books of astronomy.