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Vagaland was born on 6 March, 1909, is a Vagaland was poet from Shetland poet from Shetland. Discover Vagaland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?
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Vagaland Net Worth
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Vagaland (6 March 1909 – 30 December 1973), was a poet from Shetland.
Born Thomas Alexander Robertson at Westerwick at the southern tip of the parish of Sandsting, his mother's home.
He was the second son of Andrina Johnston and Thomas Robertson of Skeld, a merchant seaman.
His father drowned before his first birthday, and his mother moved with her two sons to Stove in Waas.
He grew up in hardship though his love for the land and the people overcame that.
It was the old Norse name for the area that he adopted as his pen name.
A shy boy who adjusted with difficulty to the rough and tumble of school, he was nonetheless able both at physical and intellectual pursuits, and in time he excelled.
He took his MA at the University of Edinburgh and was offered the possibility of postgraduate work at Oxford, which he turned down for financial reasons, instead becoming a teacher at the Lerwick Central School and carer to his ailing mother.
He was one of the writers who helped to establish The New Shetlander in 1947, and he was a key supporter of the journal for 27 years till his death.
Each issue included at least one poem by Vagaland.
With John J. Graham, he co-wrote Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect (1952); co-edited the influential anthology of Shetland verse and prose, Nordern Lights (1964), both crucially important publications, and a number of volumes of The Shetland Folk Book.
In 1953, he married Martha (‘Pat’), daughter of the Reverend Robert Andrew, Church of Scotland minister in Walls for over 40 years, a girl he had known in childhood.
She became a colleague and collaborator on many fronts, and together they edited Da Sangs at A’ll sing ta Dee (The Songs that I'll sing to you), a collection of dialect songs and music (1973).
One of his own lyric poems, Da Sang o da Papa Men, written from the perspective of the Papa Stour fishermen 'rowin Foula doon', has become a favourite Shetland song, to music composed by T. M. Y. Manson.
In 1945, Vagaland was instrumental in the founding of the Shetland Folk Society and he was an office-bearer from its inception until his death after a long illness, in Lerwick on 30 December 1973.
