wiki-illiam #104: q4

[dubdobdee]

4:
i: What is the Island of Sheep?
ii: Where did the sea cave inspire Op 26?
iii: Where was Magnus Erlendsson executed?
iv: What was David's gift to the Berkshire monks?
v: Where did an amputated digit earn its owner the right to build a monastery?
vi: Where did the great grandson of King John III make his first British landfall?
vii: Where is the unique mutton derived from a diet of Laminaria?
viii: Where was quarantine enforced for 48 years?
ix: To what was Meg's deafness compared?
x: Where was Andie Dale the prefect?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

semi-spoilers: ii is by mendelssohn; the quarantine in viii was i think from anthrax; the theme is i believe british islands?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i am travelling most of today BUT may find a seat which i can plug my dongle into fnar fnar

exec decision: i will make a holiday from n-Qs over weekend as it's starting a bit slowly and many ppl are only back at work so-called on mon

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

yep, no idea except the memory 'oh there was that island that was all anthraxed up for decades' and no idea what it was called.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

i. is the title of a John Buchan novel. I am sure I just encountered v in one of the books of medieval hist I read too.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

viii) anthrax was Gruinard island, north of Gairloch and Inverewe as you follow the coast. It is very unimpressive to look at, in my recollection!

ii) is the sea-cave Fingal's? (if so it is Staffa, near Mull). Don't know the musical connection.

iii) I am assuming has an Orkney link - I think St Magnus cathedral is in Kirkwall, can't remember the name of the island itself - or whether that is where M was martyred (is this even the same M?) or named for him.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

ii) Fingal's Cave = Hebrides Overture I believe (by Mendelssohn, as our host said).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

fingal's cave being by mendelssohn is one of the things i have mentally filed as "facts everyone in the world knows" -- we were played it surprisingly often at school (possibly i went to the only school ever this is true of)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

No, I remember it being played a lot at at least one of my schools.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Andie Dale is from Robert Louis Stevenson's Catriona. Googling has him designated, jokingly, the "Prefect" of Bass Rock.

I wonder if these are all Scottish islands, as opposed to British in general?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ix. is a literary one as well (a poem) and also Scottish

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

! ah I had not thought of Tam O Shanter, I had Meg Merilees from Guy Mannering in mind.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

OOPS right poet, wrong poem, I discover on searching in the collected works on gutenberg.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes might be scottish -- i was faintly assuming one of them would be lindisfarne so left it open

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

One of them SURELY has to be Summer Isle out of the Wicker Man.

w/Google

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The 'King John III' that comes up prominently with Google is Polish. But then clicking through his heirs using an online encyclopedia (not Wiki for once) reveals that one of his great grandchildren was Bonnie Prince Charlie!

So answer to vi. is Eriskay?

also w/google

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

google suggests vii) / sheep = North Ronaldsay. Laminaria is a type of kelp, apparently.