Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/15


 * ... that Scandinavian influence in Scotland, still evident today (Up Helly Aa festival pictured), was probably at its height during the time of Thorfinn the Mighty?
 * ... that John Gregorson Campbell was at the same time a church minister and a folklorist?
 * ...that Balfour, Orkney was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called Balfour Castle, then partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?
 * ...that the last chief of Clan MacQuarrie sold off his clan lands in Scotland and joined the British Army, at age 68, and fought in the American Revolutionary War?