Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/24


 * ... that the U class submarine HMS Vandal (pictured) had the shortest career of any Royal Navy submarine, being lost with all hands just four days after its commission?
 * ... that the 13th and 14th century Hebridean chieftains Tormod and Torquil were once believed to have been brothers, and sons of Leod; but now Torquil is considered as a grandson of Tormod?
 * ... that Pierowall has an Iron Age dry-stone Atlantic roundhouse?
 * ... that Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings", the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway, was rumored to be a witch?