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?