The triforium ( open arcade ) above the door is unique in Scottish medieval architecture.

Samhain was the first and the most important of the four quarter days in the medieval Irish and Scottish calendar and, falling on the last day of autumn, it was a time for stock-taking and preparation for the cold winter months ahead.

Evidence of how Imbolc was celebrated in Gaelic Ireland is found in medieval Irish texts that mention the festival, besides folklore collected during the 19th and early 20th century in rural Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

The longbow decided many medieval battles fought by the English, the most significant of which were the Battle of Crécy ( 1346 ) and the Battle of Agincourt ( 1415 ), during the Hundred Years ' War and followed earlier successes, notably at the Battle of Halidon Hill ( 1333 ) during the Scottish wars.

Dedications on the Isle of Man date from the time of medieval Scottish dominance, and are not natively inspired.

The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair.

Formed in 1996, the Berlin based In Extremo has also found chart success with their " medieval style stage garb and unashamed usage of such bizarre, sometimes hand made, instruments as the Scottish bagpipes.

** two-handed claymore ( late medieval Scottish )

Secondly, in medieval Gaelic and Welsh society, a bard ( Scottish and Irish Gaelic ) or bardd ( Welsh ) was a professional poet, employed to compose eulogies for his lord ( see planxty ).

Culhwch (, with the final consonant of Scottish " loch "), in Welsh mythology, is the son of Cilydd son of Celyddon and Goleuddydd, a cousin of Arthur and the protagonist of the story Culhwch and Olwen ( the earliest of the medieval Welsh tales usually, but erroneously, referred to collectively as the Mabinogion ).

North of the border this resulted in the distinctive style of Scots Baronial Style architecture, which took French and traditional medieval Scottish features and reinvented them in a baroque style.

It is generally accepted by medieval historians that this marks the point at which Lothian came under Scottish control.

While this is difficult to reconcile with medieval English masons, it apparently became important to Scottish operative lodges.

While there, he discovered the legend of the medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace.

One of the churches in the town bears the name of The Old Church of St Kentigern ( perhaps better known as St Mungo ), who set up many medieval churches in the Scottish Lowlands, including Glasgow, and died c. 612 AD.

This also ties in with the traditional idea of Robin Hood being related to Scottish nobility, if not distantly, because the lords of Hallamshire were descendants of the early medieval kings of Scotland through the Earl of Huntingdon.

Saint Brigit, in the alternative spelling of her name, Bride, was patron saint of the powerful medieval Scottish House of Douglas.

The school's chapel is a notable example of Scottish medieval revival architecture, based on the 14th century Dominican ( later parish ) church of St Monans in Fife.

The series was also influenced by medieval Scottish history.

Others totally abandoned the traditional element and in this area particularly influential were the Scottish artists Donovan, who was most influenced by emerging progressive folk musicians in America like Bob Dylan, and the Incredible String Band, who from 1967 incorporated a range of influences including medieval and eastern music into their compositions.

The church's roomy interior ( now deprived of its galleries ) is graced by a little-known treasure, one of the finest medieval furnishings to survive in any Scottish parish church.

The prolific British writer Andrew Sinclair has put forth the hypothesis that the Newport Tower was built by medieval Scottish Templars led by the Scottish earl Henry Sinclair, as part of an alleged voyage to New England about a hundred years before Columbus.

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

The dukedom was created in 1702 by Queen Anne ; John Churchill, whose wife was a favourite of the queen, had earlier been made Lord Churchill of Eyemouth in the Scottish peerage ( 1682 ), which became extinct with his death, and Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ) by King William III.

There were exceptions to this rule however, such as the full-sized elves who appear in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter as well as Northern English and Scottish Lowlands folklore ( as seen in such tales as The Queen of Elfan's Nourice and other local variants ).

Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester, recalled: " When we had experience of a Scottish government, the Queen did seem to revive.

The fashion for all things Scottish was maintained by Queen Victoria, who helped secure the identity of Scotland as a tourist resort, with Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire becoming a major royal residence from 1852.

* 1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.

* John Brown ( servant ) ( 1826 – 1883 ), Scottish servant of Queen Victoria

* 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

* 1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.

No Sovereign has denied royal assent since Queen Anne vetoed the Scottish Militia Bill in 1708.

* 1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned " Queen of Scots " in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.

* The Toronto Scottish Regiment ( Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own ), a Canadian militia unit

Executive power in the United Kingdom is exercised by the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II, via Her Majesty's Government and the devolved national authorities-the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Executive.

The Scottish Parliament nominates a Member to be appointed as First Minister by the Queen.

* May 13 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.

* 1286 – March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with Queen Yolande de Dreux's unborn child and the 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs ; this sets the stage for the First war of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.

The Protestants agreed, but when the Queen Regent entered Perth, she garrisoned it with Scottish soldiers on the French pay roll.

* June 15 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is defeated at Carberry Hill by the Scottish nobles, and imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.

* March 11 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

* March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with only Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland's unborn child and 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs ; this sets the stage for the First War of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.