Cille Bharra
Italy
The island's Viking history is preserved not only in many of its place-names but also in the small chapel of Cille Bharra. This building has been restored, and contains a replica of a stone containing both Viking runes and Celtic designs. The stone commemorates the Christian burial of a Viking princ
ess - Thorgeth, daughter of Steinar. The orioginal stone is kept in Edinburgh. In the graveyard here is the grave of Compton MacKenzie, who took the idea for the story "Whisky Galore" from the sinking of "The Politician" during World War II. It is thought that Mackenzie used the idea and possibly some of the drafted text about which a local school teacher had asked him his opinion.
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