Alexander now turned his attention to securing the Western Isles, which still owed a nominal allegiance to Norway.

It came to mean usually cereals in general in the British Isles in the nineteen century eg. Corn laws, but maize in North America, and now just maize also in the British Isles.

The Hebrides were now part of the Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway.

The geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer carried out an extensive research of the British Isles, finding that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon influx had little effect, with the majority of British ethnicity tracing back from an ancient Palaeolithic Iberian migration, now represented by the Basques so that 75 % of the modern British population could ( in theory ) trace their ancestry back 15, 000 years.

It is a historical irony that those from a group seen as rebels or " Whigs " back home in the Isles became Tories in the Americas while those from a group now considered one of the most " Tory " in regards to the United Kingdom became Whigs in the Americas.

Archaeological finds in the county of Møre og Romsdal have been dated to 9, 200 BC and are probably the remains of settlers from Doggerland, an area now submerged in the North Sea, but at the time a landbridge that connected the present day British Isles with Jutland.

Seal of Alexander of Islay, Earl of Ross | Alexander, Earl of Ross and Lord of the Isles. The king's need for allies in the west and north led him to pursue a policy of rapprochement with Alexander and, hoping that he would now become a loyal servant of the crown, James released him.

The first mortal man to succeed in navigating to and passing the Isles of Enchantment was Eärendil, who came to Valinor to seek the aid of the Valar against Melkor, now called Morgoth.

During the time of the Roman occupation of the British Isles, a small spring was situated near the green, now shadowed by a BP garage.

The island is one of the Cumberland Isles, later know as Whitsundays, and is now part of the South Cumberland Islands.

It is now incorporated into Fort Lauderdale, as the neighborhood, " Chula Vista Isles.

Due to the afternoon shadows of the newly-erected condominiums that now loom over the beach, some longtime Sunny Isles beachgoers refer to the area as Shady Isles.

The general council held in Perth in April 1398 criticised the king's governance and empowered his brother Robert and his son David — now respectively the Dukes of Albany and Rothesay — to lead an army against Donald, Lord of the Isles and his brothers.

Although the isostatic rise of land makes estimating post-glacial coastlines a complex task, c. 14, 000 BP it is likely that Staffa was part of a larger island, just off the coast of mainland Scotland, which at that time would have included what is now the Isle of Mull, Iona and the Treshnish Isles.

With Gamble & Huff, the O ' Jays ( now a trio after the departure of Isles and Massey ) emerged at the forefront of Philadelphia soul with " Back Stabbers " ( 1972 ), and topped the Billboard Hot 100 the following year with " Love Train ".

The current work was performed by Mander Organs between 2002 and 2004 and the organ is now again the second largest pipe organ in the British Isles with 9, 999 pipes in 147 stops.

It was successfully reintroduced to the Isle of Rum, in the Small Isles archipelago in Scotland, in 1975 and now breeds throughout the Western Isles and the mainland coast of Wester Ross.

Born in the colony of New Brunswick ( now in Canada ), he is the only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles.

He now rules the Green Isles with Cassima.

She now rules as Queen of the Green Isles with Alexander.

Some have claimed this is a geographical reference to northern France, and Hyperborea as the British Isles which lay just beyond the English Channel.

Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland says that Alexander was holding court at Invergowrie when he was attacked by " men of the Isles ".

On attaining his majority at the age of 21 in 1262, Alexander declared his intention of resuming the projects on the Western Isles which the death of his father thirteen years before had cut short.

Early archaeoastronomy surveyed Megalithic constructs in the British Isles, at sites like Auglish in County Londonderry, in an attempt to find statistical patterns

For example, the broch ' villages ' which occur at a few places in Orkney have no parallel in the Western Isles.

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

Whether there were Viking or Norse-Gael kingdoms in the Western Isles or the Northern Isles at this time is debated.

* 1900 – A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.

A 6 – 3 loss in 1953 to Hungary, was their first ever defeat at Wembley by a team from outside of the British Isles.

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

With the death of James III in 1488 at the Battle of Sauchieburn, his successor James IV successfully ended the quasi-independent rule of the Lord of the Isles, bringing the Western Isles under effective Royal control for the first time.

In the Western Isles of Scotland the Sluagh, or fairy host was regarded as composed of the souls of the dead flying through the air, and the feast of the dead at Hallowe ' en was likewise the festival of the fairies.

The Scottish Hebrides, particularly in the Isle of Skye, show some records of a ' Handfast " or " left-handed " marriage taking place as recently as the late 1600s where the Gaelic scholar, Martin Martin, notes " It was an ancient custom in the Isles that a man take a maid as his wife and keep her for the space of a year without marrying her ; and if she pleased him all the while, he married her at the end of the year and legitimatised her children ; but if he did not love her, he returned her to her parents.

Hunter ( 2000 ) states that in relation to King Bridei I of the Picts in the sixth century: " As for Shetland, Orkney, Skye and the Western Isles, their inhabitants, most of whom appear to have been Pictish in culture and speech at this time, are likely to have regarded Bridei as a fairly distant presence .”

This situation lasted until the partitioning of the Western Isles in 1156, at which time the Outer Hebrides remained under Norwegian control while the Inner Hebrides broke out under Somerled, the Norse-Celtic kinsman of the Manx royal house.

David Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, at the time, found himself under increasing pressure ( both internationally and from within the British Isles ) to try to salvage something from the situation.

The British-Irish Council is the expression of a relationship that at the origin of the Anglo-Irish process in 1981 was sometimes given the name Iona, islands of the North Atlantic, and sometimes Council of the Isles, with its evocation of the Lords of the Isles of the 14th and 15th centuries who spanned the North Channel.

It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ; the impressive and famous sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy ; some of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the British Isles ; the remote possibility that Arctic Char survive in Heldale Water and the most northerly Martello Towers, which were built to defend the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.

Stonehenge is therefore interpreted as functioning as an enclosed cremation cemetery at this time, the earliest known cremation cemetery in the British Isles.

A typical variant for European swords is the leaf-shaped blade, which was most common in North-West Europe at the end of the Bronze Age, in the British Isles and Ireland in particular.