The Goodman of Wastness
a selkie tale,
at Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World, a wonderful gathering of traditional stories.

Selkies
at Romantic Scotland

The Silky Wife
nested in Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
in turn nested in Celtic Folklore
whose volumes are themselves a bit of the world of Legends and Sagas
(Arabian Nights, Edda, Kalevala, Cid, Roland, Ring of The Niblung, Grimm's, Shah Namah, more...)
which is itself, like a galaxy within a still greater wheel, part of The Internet Sacred Text Archive
"This is a quiet place in cyberspace devoted to religious tolerance and scholarship"

{still meditating on Elaine Morgan's hypothesis, the unfortunately titled Aquatic Ape Theory, which makes it sound like our ancestors might have been ducks.
whether it's true or not, in the context of her work, or true in a larger more atavistic sense, the way dragons map onto dinosaurs, or just another human dream, I don't care. I had a vision one time of fresh water seas, lakes as wide as the great oceans, and people living in and on them. it doesn't matter to me about the validity, the viability. this world, as it is, now, is the result of an absence of dreams, and dreamers.}

{the above research expedited by Mozilla 1.4 Beta}