

3:37 pm

December 16, 2015

it was always nonsense that "Schiehallion" had anything to do with "fairy hills" - but such has been the laziness of so much thinking of recent decades.
It Actually means "the precipitous mountain of the Caledonians - and at the time it acquired the name it lay on the northern border of Caledonian territory.
See https://www.academia.edu/45085062/Schiehallion_NOT_a_fairy_hill_at_all
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