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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.
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Scottish and Hebrides
In addition to the Outer Hebrides, they form basement deposits on the Scottish mainland west of the Moine Thrust and on the islands of Coll and Tiree.
The Hebrides (; Scottish Gaelic: Innse Gall ) comprise a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland.
Viking raids began on Scottish shores towards the end of the 8th century and the Hebrides came under Norse control and settlement during the ensuing decades, especially following the success of Harald Fairhair at the Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872.
The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered Orkney, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various island petty kingdoms.
The Scottish Gaelic language arrived via Ireland due to the growing influence of the kingdom of Dál Riata from the 6th century onwards and became the dominant language of the southern Hebrides at that time.
The use of Scots and English became prominent in recent times but the Hebrides still contain the largest concentration of Scottish Gaelic speakers in Scotland.
The Islands of the Firth of Clyde are the fifth largest of the major Scottish island groups after the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.
The Small Isles ( Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Tarsainn ) are a small archipelago of islands in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland.
They form part of the Hebrides, separated from the Scottish mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the waters of the Minch, the Little Minch and the Sea of the Hebrides.
Attempts to eliminate hedgehogs from bird colonies on the Scottish islands of North Uist and Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides were met with international outrage.
It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.
* Jura, UK, Scottish island, in the Inner Hebrides where Isle of Jura Single Malt Whisky is distilled.
Because of the settings and style of Gorey's work, many people have assumed he was British ; in fact, he only left the U. S. once, for a visit to the Scottish Hebrides.
A less thorough survey in 2007 showed that in addition to large numbers of territories in the Scottish Highlands and the Inner and Outer Hebrides, there were a handful of birds in southern Scotland and northern England.
The Inner Hebrides ( Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan a-staigh, " the inner isles ") is an archipelago off the west coast of Mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides.
Norwegian control over the Faroe Islands and Shetland was strong due to the importance of Bergen as a trading centre, while Orkney, the Hebrides and Man had more natural ties with the Scottish mainland.
As part of a new development the Scottish king Alexander II claimed the Hebrides and requested to buy the islands from Norway, but Haakon staunchly rejected the proposals.
In 1263 the dispute with the Scottish king over the Hebrides induced Haakon to undertake an expedition to the islands.
Having learned in 1262 that Scottish nobles had raided the Hebrides and that Alexander III planned to conquer the islands, Haakon went on an expedition with his formidable leidang fleet of at least 120 ships in 1263, having become accustomed to negotiating backed by an intimidating fleet.
Singing sand has been reported on thirty-three beaches in the British Isles including in the North of Wales, on the little island of Eigg in the Scottish Hebrides.
* Ness, Western Isles ( Scottish Gaelic: Nis ), a village in the Outer Hebrides islands.
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These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.
As a result, significant portions of the three provinces are influenced by Celtic heritages, with Scottish Gaelic having been widely spoken, particularly in Cape Breton, although it is less prevalent today.
It is particularly conspicuous in the United States, where Polish Americans, Scottish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans and others strive to emphasize their differences from the mainstream.
From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with a group of Glasgow writers focused around critic, poet and teacher Philip Hobsbaum and editor Peter Kravitz.
Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth, particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.
Various other languages, which are not closely related, have been heavily influenced by Norse, particularly the Norman dialects, Scottish Gaelic and Waterford Irish.
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, particularly those featuring the Lancre witches, the Picts are an obvious influence on the Nac Mac Feegle, a race of tiny wood-fairies whose speech is influenced by Scottish Gaelic and who are tattooed with blue war-paint.
The experiments were exported to Canada when the CIA recruited Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, creator of the " psychic driving " concept, which the CIA found particularly interesting.
Like many areas of the Scottish Highlands, historical deforestation, overgrazing by sheep and deer, and extensive 20th century afforestation with non-native tree species ( particularly conifers ) have resulted in landscapes which are semi-natural.
* In Britain, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, sweets or more colloquially sweeties ( particularly used by children, the Scottish Gaelic word suiteis is a derivative ).
This was a play on the title " Procurator ," meaning agent, a word still used in the Scottish courts, particularly when one Scottish solicitor tells a court that he is appearing only as the agent of another solicitor.
Folk etymology derives its name from a combination of the word " glass " with the word " company " for a glass factory that was built there many years ago, but the presence of many Scottish immigrants to this part of Appalachia, particularly from the Strathclyde region, indicates that the town was most likely named after the Scottish city of Glasgow in Strathclyde.
Along the English-Scottish borders the construction pattern follows the relative prosperity of the different side: the English lords built tower houses primarily in the early 15th century, when northern England was particularly prosperous, while their Scottish equivalents built them in late 15th and early 16th centuries, boom periods in the economy of Scotland.
Also, Scottish weather can be particularly rugged and must be respected with proper forecasting and gear.
Alexander Leslie moved six of his regiments to his relief taking heavy casualties in the process with the Scottish and English regiments being particularly badly mauled.
He studied the ancient classics and the best works in French, Italian, Spanish and English, particularly Shakespeare, and the old English and Scottish ballads.
In the 19th century European production of paisley increased, particularly in the Scottish town from which the pattern takes its modern name.
This led to an industry of " fast marriages " in Scottish towns on the border with England ; the town of Gretna Green was particularly well known for this.
A compartment is usually some kind of landscape ( in the case of Scottish chiefs it is generally a " mount vert "-grassy mount covered with the clan's flower ) or seascape, and these can be quite elaborate, particularly in more recent Canadian grants, such as the compartment of the University of Northern British Columbia, in which the female kermodei bear and woodland caribou buck stand on a forest, mountain peaks and ears of wheat, all rising out of the conventionalised heraldic representation of water, which is itself charged with an orca as designed by Ron Sebastian.
In that form it came into full flower as a leading ideal of the Enlightenment, and particularly of the Scottish Enlightenment, in the works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury and Frances Hutcheson.
From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with a group of Glasgow writers including Irvine Welsh.
From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with a group of Glasgow writers focused around meetings in the house of critic, poet and teacher Philip Hobsbaum.
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