Portal:Scottish islands/Did you know/1

• ... that the ruined Cill Chriosd (pictured), also known as Kilchrist or Christ's Church, was the parish church of Strathaird, Skye, until 1840?
• ... that the Moine Supergroup, a sequence of Neoproterozoic metasediments forming the main outcrop in the northwest Scottish Highlands, is named after 'a'Mhoine', a peat bog in northern Sutherland?
• ... that the battleship Bayern was the first German warship to mount 15 inch guns?
• ... that Viking warlord Sigurd Eysteinsson was killed by the severed head of his enemy?