Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the dining room on visit to Fyvie Castle near Turriff in Aberdeenshire. The dining room on the first floor has a number of family portraits and a long table laid out with some beautifully decorated crystal glasses. Fyvie was first used as a surname by descendants of the Pictish people of ancient Scotland. The ancestors of the Fyvie family lived in the barony of Fyvie in the county of Aberdeen. The surname Fyvie belongs to the category of habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. The surname Fyvie was first found in Aberdeenshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Obar Dheathain, a historic county, and present day Council Area of Aberdeen, located in the Grampian region of north eastern Scotland, where they held a family seat from very early times, some say long before the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D. Fyvie is a village on the River Ytham, and the castle is one of the great tower houses of north eastern Scotland. A dining room is a room for consuming food. In modern times it is usually adjacent to the kitchen for convenience in serving, although in medieval times it was often on an entirely different floor level. Historically the dining room is furnished with a rather large dining table and a number of dining chairs; the most common shape is generally rectangular with two armed end chairs and an even number of un-armed side chairs along the long sides. Fyvie holds one of the richest portrait collections in Scotland, including works by Batoni, Romney, Gainsborough, Opie, Lawrence and Hoppner.
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