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Work Begins on Clan Donald Village
by Nadine Lee
Kilbeg Village Master Plan
Construction work began this week on the first planned village for over 100 years on the Isle of Skye. A project initiated by the Clan Donald Lands Trust, the 21st centur...
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Alex Salmond, clan donald, Clan Donald of Sleat, Kilbeg Village, Nicola Sturgeon, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye
- March 5, 2014 12:56 pm
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Ambassador Claims Vikings 'Brought Sarcasm to Britain'
by Nadine Lee
Monty Python have a lot to thank the Vikings for according to the Danish Ambassador.
For over two centuries, Vikings colonised, traded and raided their way through much of Britain before disappeari...
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Danish ambassador, Denmark, Monty Python, Norse, viking
An Ode to Scotland - Meeting a Modern-Day Scots Poet
by Nadine Lee
Intertwined and impenetrably linked to Scottish culture, poetry has a long and distinguished history in Scotland. And it's a history that's continuing to this day – Edinburgh was recently named the wo...
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edinburgh, Harry Giles, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norse, Orkney, Poetry, Scots, Scots Renaissance, Scottish identity, Vikings
Francis Alexander Mackinnon, 35th Chief — A Hat-Trick V...
by Nadine Lee
Francis Alexander Mackinnon, born April 9, 1848, was the 35th chieftain of the Mackinnon Clan and a Test cricketer for England. Arunabha Sengupta remembers the life and career of the man who was the s...