q8: Locate Ellan Vannin:

[dubdobdee]

q8: Locate Ellan Vannin:
i: in Kola (no ice!)
ii: where the early pumpkins blow.
iii: among the spättburgunder vineyards.
iv: under the crest of the red-handed badgers.
v: in a university city, home to a “royal” seminary for Scottish seculars.
vi: within a region whose littoral achieved historical significance on the feast day of St Norbert.
vii: at the crossroads between Devana and Ermine.
viii: in the home of a carnivorous marsupial.
ix: within the landform beneath Uhuru.
x: in the land of the Dayak.

COMPLETED:
ELLAN VANNIN is the Manx for Man (as in “Isle of”) and this is places containing the syllable MAN
i: MURMANSK (known by alextiefling)
ii: COROMANDEL (via a line in Edward Lear) (known by alextiefling)
iii: MANNHEIM on the Rhine is the location of the Pinot Noir (Spättburgunder) vineyards (part-googled by kat, confirmed by jeff_worrell )
iv: FERMANAGH (via marnameow)
v: SALAMANCA in Spain, home of the Royal Scots College, a Roman Catholic seminary (googled by jeff_worrell )
vi: Jan 6 = Invasion of NORMANDY (guess and confirmed by thebopkids)
vii: GODMANCHESTER in Cambridgeshire is the site of the crossroads of the Via Devana (Roman Road from Colchester to Chester) and Ermine Street (googled by kat)
viii: TASMANIA (home of the Tasmanian Devil) (guessed by jeff_worrell)
ix: KILIMANJARO: theres an Uhuru peak (from the swahili word meaning “freedom”) (Lt Uhuru is named for this word…) (guessed & googled by kat)
x: KALINMANTAN in Borneo (guessed by alextiefling)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no clue

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

"Ellen Vannin" is "Isle of Man" in Manx. But I think that's slightly misleading. Here's why:

Kola (no ice) suggests Murmansk, an ice-free port on the Kola Peninsula.

2. Is an Edward Lear quote: "On the coast of Coromandel/ where the early pumpkins blow/ something something something something/ Lived the Yonghy Bonghy Bo."

So I think this is 'places containing "man"'.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dayak = Borneo tribe (I admit I googled to check this) so could it be the man of the forest - the orangutan?

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Kalimantan?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

viii. = Tasmania?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ix. Is this a typo for Uluru or a typo for Uhura off Star Trek? (or not a typo at all!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Ah - I googled and the answer is Not a Typo, so I shall leave that unspoken for now :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It is indeed Kilimanjaro - Uhuru Peak is one of its highest bits :)

[thebopkids.livejournal.com]

vi - region + significant shore + letters MAN maybe Normandy... haven't googled St Norbert tho.

[thebopkids.livejournal.com]

Yes, 6 June, well done St Nobby.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Iv = Fermanagh maybe. Red hand and all.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

v. is SALAMANCA in Spain, home of the Royal Scots College, which resumed its original purpose - the formation of young Scots for the priesthood - only last year.

(Google plus)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Am disappointed that none of these answers are Welsh Rockers MAN...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

vii) Google time: Via Devana is a long-ass Roman Road from Colchester to Chester - it crosses another Roman Road Ermine Street at Godmanchester (in Cambridgeshire).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

iii) Spättburgunder is Pinot Noir (I should have got that!). So probably somewhere in the Black Forest or the Rhine?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

MANNHEIM!