Talk:Inchcolm

Capitalisation?

Should Hog-Backed Stone be capitalised that way? My understanding is that there are several, so it's not a singular proper noun (i.e. not "THE Hog-Backed Stone")? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 21:22, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

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Does The Green Lady still haunt the Abbey?

--Publunch 02:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Euphemia or Mariota? Alexander's mother or grandmother? Someone else?

The article says: "The island was also used as a kind of prison. Amongst those interned here were, Archbishop Patrick Graham of St Andrews, along with Euphemia/Affrica (Oighrig), mother of Alexander, Lord of the Isles". However, the article on Alexander says that his mother was Mariota, Countess of Ross. I noticed that Mariota's article says her mother was Euphemia I, Countess of Ross. So something's note quite right.--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 08:17, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Purpose of Wartime Defences

The Article states " it was fortified during both World Wars to defend nearby Edinburgh", however the defences were mainly to protect the Royal Naval Dockyard at Rosyth and the Grand Fleet anchorage at Port Edgar. The Forth Bridge was also a strategically important asset used to supply Naval bases on the Eastern and Northern Coasts of Scotland, also the port of Leith was a major asset. The Forth Bridge during WW1, with destroyers of the Grand Fleet at anchor between Port Edgar and Rosyth Dockyards86.157.195.106 (talk) 13:09, 5 September 2012 (UTC)david.cuthill@asperto.net

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Early History

The reference to Sweyn, father of Canute is probably misleading. In Shakespeare's play the words are in the mouth of Duncan - king in the period 1034-40 Sweyn Forkbeard was long dead (1014) Meanwhile we do have Sweyn Knutsson as King of Norway in the period 1030-5 - so there is a potential overlap.

I do not know the basis of the story - is it supposed to be real or apocryphal? Should the Scottish King really be Malcolm II? But the current text of this article is clearly a mismatch Freuchie (talk) 15:45, 24 June 2019 (UTC)