Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . l evening,when the sun sinks his red-hot disc just off Dunvegan Head, and,nearer at hand, the darkening back of Gairbh Island mirrors itselfin the unruffled water; and the calls of blackbirds, gulls, cuckoos,terns, and mergansers, make a striking and unusual combinationof bird-music. And the picture loses nothing in interest suppos-ing Dunvegans lord has been prevailed upon good-naturedly todon the old accoutrements, occupy the battlemented foreground,and, fier comme iiii Ecossais, throw against the sky those threeeagle-plumes which none
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . l evening,when the sun sinks his red-hot disc just off Dunvegan Head, and,nearer at hand, the darkening back of Gairbh Island mirrors itselfin the unruffled water; and the calls of blackbirds, gulls, cuckoos,terns, and mergansers, make a striking and unusual combinationof bird-music. And the picture loses nothing in interest suppos-ing Dunvegans lord has been prevailed upon good-naturedly todon the old accoutrements, occupy the battlemented foreground,and, fier comme iiii Ecossais, throw against the sky those threeeagle-plumes which none but a chief may wear. In the corridor, between the Keep and the South Tower,among other things is some old chain armour fished up out of theloch ; the claymore of Norman MacLeod (of Bernera), who raiseda thousand men, and led the clan at the battle of Worcester,where the majority fell ; also that symbol of the subjection of theIsles, Rorie Mores two-handed sword. The early career of thisredoubtable chief was spent in keeping alive a feud long existent. 53 54 Bunveoan dastle concerning the northern extremity of Skye. According to certaincharters (isoo-1510), the bailiery of Troternish had been vested in three different per-sons, the natural resultbeing that there oc-curred perpetual en-gagements between therival claimants—Dunve-gan, Lewis, and Sleat,alike in the time ofCrotach, of the nextchief, Tormod, and ofhis second son, Rorie —in the latter case thefeud becoming intensi-fied through Rories sis-ter being ill-treated byher husband, DonaldG 0 r m M a c d 0 n a 1 d .With such ferocity andrevengefulness was thefray sustained, that thePrivy Council was com-pelled to interfere, and endeavour to introduce some sort oforder into the Isles, before the clans in question were com-pletely ruined. To this end, in 1608, all the island lords hadto meet the Commissioners at Aros, and were required to giveup their strongholds to the Heralds, renounce all claims tojurisdiction, obey the l
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