Looks can be deceiving by William Cruithni "Hello there!" A young man yells from the shore. He sounds a bit anxious, so you go over to see is everything is alright. "You look like your busy as it is, but could you help me find a seal skin? I have misplaced one, and without it, the bottom of my boat is not fully covered." He gestures to the underside of the sleek boat and you can the coating of skins covering the hull, but notice that there an area where the wood is left uncovered. "I was drying out my skins for my boat which I use for … transporting. After one of my recent ... excursions … it seems that I had misplaced one of the skins and there are none of good enough quality around here." The man looks at you and just breaks down. "I'm sorry, I just can't do it!" He moans. "I'm a raider … well not yet, but I want to be one soon. This boat is my older brothers, and if he finds out that something is missing, he's going to kill me!" The boy looks down. "He doesn't even know I have it. Will you help me find it?" One of the theories trying to determine why selkies are in folklore is that the seal skins don't actually belong to Flemish raiders to put on as their skin, but rather to be on the hulls of their ships. The Flems are descended from the Franks, which came from Germania/Belgium region. Some raided the coastlines and used slick fast boats to leave the scene quickly. The seal skins allowed them to seemingly glide over the waves. Though once they were on land again, the skins had to be dried out. This is perhaps why if a skin is taken, the owner cannot leave without it. __________________________________________ Clue #4 Home to a lady fair and famous Heroes welcomed at her docks Selkies singing in their arbor Dwelling on the harbor rocks Merlin with his kenning kisses Wooed her by his woodland cave Sighed and shared his secret spells Now sadly sleeps within his grave

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