Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/27

... that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins (example pictured) that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?
... that according to a mediaeval chronicle, saga, and later clan tradition, Páll, son of Bálki blinded and castrated the son of a Manx king—a son who would in time become king himself?
... that Damian Lewis and Andrea Riseborough shot a film near Pennyghael on the Isle of Mull?
... that Alasdair Crotach MacLeod is said to have prayed for six hours prior to ordering the massacre of almost the entire population of the Hebridean island of Eigg?