Meaning of Skyriot | Babel Free

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One of the inhabitants of the Greek island of Skyros.

Examples

“Many years later, say the Skyriots, the British fleet with [Rupert] Brooke on board, was steaming north to free Constantinople from the Turks. The poet was dangerously ill, and when his ship came abreast of Skyros – strange destiny! – he died. His friends who were with him remembered his wish, and buried him with honour in the place he had loved and chosen so many years before.”

“He launched into a long rigmarole of which I understood no word: the Skyriots speak a language all their own, and are unintelligible even to the Psariots, who inhabit the next island. But his tone, and the uninhibited delight of his expression, were eloquence enough.”

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