Tour Scotland Photograph Trollaval and Ainshval Isle Of Rum

Tour Scotland photograph of Trollaval and Ainshval, two mountains which are part of the Rum Cuillin, Island of Rum, Scotland. Trollaval is Old Norse for " mountain of the trolls, " Ainshval is Old Norse for " hill of the strongholds ". Seafaring Hebrideans had numerous taboos concerning spoken references to the small islands. In the case of Rùm, use of the usual name was forbidden, the island being referred to as Rìoghachd na Forraiste Fiadhaich, " the kingdom of the wild forest. "



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Tour Scotland Photograph Rum Cuillin

Tour Scotland photograph of Rum Cuillin on the Isle Of Rum, Scotland. The main range of hills on Rum are the Cuillin, usually referred to as the Rùm Cuillin, in order to distinguish them from the Cuillin of Skye. Rum is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland. By the mid-16th century, and probably a century earlier, the island was in the possession of the MacLeans of Coll. In 1588 the island suffered an armed invasion by Lachlan Maclean of Duart and his band of clansmen, including up to one hundred Spaniards shipwrecked in the aftermath of the English defeat of the Armada. He burnt and put the isles to the sword, sparing neither women nor children. At a later date a report received by King James VI indicated that Clanranald had re-occupied the island, but despite these temporary setbacks the island remained in Maclean of Coll's hands for three centuries or more.



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