Portal:Scotland/Did you know/31




 * ... that Walter Scott's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake (pictured) is in six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day?


 * ... that Lady Isle, a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde, is Britain's first seabird reserve?


 * ... that students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?


 * ... that rugby union footballer Robert Wilson Shaw was so influential in Scotland's Triple Crown winning victory over England in 1938 that the match became known as "Wilson Shaw's match"?