“Da Slockit Light” is a reel composed by the renowned Shetland fiddler Tom Anderson (1910-1991), who composed over three hundred tunes. He was born in Esha Ness, on the Northmavine peninsula, in the far northwest edge of the Shetland mainland. Once, when asked about the tune, Tom Anderson recounted that he was leaving his birth-home of Esha Ness one cold January in 1969. It was after 11pm and with maybe a quarter-moon it was a rather dark night. As he was leaving he looked back at the top of the hill leading out of the district and he saw so few lights compared to what he remembered from his youth. Then, as he stood there, the lights started to go out one by one. “Coupled with the recent death of my wife”, he explained “made me think of the old word ‘Slockit’, meaning, a light that has gone out, and I think that is what inspired the tune” "Slockit" is a Scandinavian word and there is no synonymous word in standard English. I have included this in the Celtic section like the other Shetland tunes but it could just as easily been in the Legacies section. It was recorded by Fennig's All-Stars on The Hammered Dulcimer Returns.