Answers to Scottish Quiz 2.
1. The Drinking Horn of a famous Dunvegan chief of the MacLeods, to be drained at a draught by each heir on succeeding to the chieftainship.
2. The Churchyard, Balquhidder.
3 Piping. They were the hereditary pipers to the McLeods of Dunvegan.
4 A wooden cross, the extremities seared in fire, dipped in the blood of a goat slain by a chief and carried round the country-side to summon his clan in arms.
5. The Clan Gregor or MacGregor whose name was suppressed by Act of Parliament in the eighteenth century.
6. A river spirit, often seen as a water horse.
7. Shetland. It marks the end of Yuletide.
8. Norse, Trolls. Fairy folk of Orkney and Shetland, who love music and dancing and can interfere in the affairs of men.
9. Sir Robert Stout.
10. Famous brooch of Robert the Bruce, used for fastening his plaid and lost to John, Lord of Lorne, at the Battle of Dalrigh.
11. Lismore. St. Columba and St. Moluag. St. Moluag cut off the little finger of his left hand and threw it ashore, thus claiming to have landed first.
12. Tiree
13. Muck (Gaelic muc—pig)
14. Canna. Iron deposits in its rocks deflect the compass point.
15. St. Francis’s
Cave, also known as MacDonald or Clan Ranald Cave. The MacDonalds of Eigg were
suffocated by a fire lit at its entrance by the raiding
McLeods of Skye.
16. A flag of disputed origin kept by the McLeods of Dunvegan and having the power to avert disaster to the clan when it is waved.
17. A cascade in a stream adjacent to Dunvegan Castle.
18. The Lord of the Isles who in 1346 reduced the Hebrides under his sway.
19. A wailing spirit foretelling death.
20. Jan Teit.
21. The King of Norway formerly ruled over Orkney and Shetland.
22 To prevent its being stolen by the Little Folk.
23 National Museum of Antiquities) Edinburgh. It was supposed to have contained the mortal remains of St. Columba.
24 The Inverewe Gardens planted by Henry Osgood MacKenzie.
25 John MacPherson of Glendale, Skye, who incited the people of his district against the land lords, and was imprisoned.
26 A war galley of the type formerly used in the Western Isles.
27 A thicket of hollies high on the slopes of Ben Alder in which Charles Edward Stewart was in hiding for a time.
28. Pass of Killiecrankie.
29. Each new bishop of Orkney drank from it and his manner of doing so was construed as an augury for his period of office.
30 A famous Gaelic poet revered among Gaelic speakers as Burns is in the Lowlands.
31. The aurora borealis.
32. At the northern entrance to Bergen harbour, Norway.
33. Kirkwall.
34. A large community of clans embracing Macphersons, MacGillivrays, Farquharsons, McQuins, McPhails, MacBains and others.
35 The equivalent of a Parliament.
36. The Marquis of Zetland.
37. Orcadians.
38. Sigurd, carrying
the head of his enemy, Maelbrigte, at his saddle bow, punctured his leg on a
projecting tooth and died of the ensuing blood-
poisoning.
39. A pillar of detached cliff 450 feet high, Island of Hoy.
40. When such a price was set on the head of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, none betrayed him.
41. The Clan Cameron.
42. The Macdonalds of Glencoe.
43. Flora Macdonald.