↑ selkie simply means "seal" in Scots dialect. Bruford (1974)Lỗi harv: không có mục tiêu: CITEREFBruford1974 (trợ giúp), p. 78, note 1. Bruford (1997), tr. 120Lỗi harv: không có mục tiêu: CITEREFBruford1997 (trợ giúp).
↑ The child with a sore on her feet reveals it to be in the aisins (space beneath the eaves) in the Orkney version from North Ronaldsay, the mother told the child she was looking for the skin for her, so she could make a rivlin (shoe) to heal her sore.
↑ The children found the skin under a sheaf of corn (wheat or other grain) in the tale about the man of Unst, Shetland.
