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Assassin's Creed Valhalla is an action role-playing video game structured around several main story arcs and numerous optional side-missions, called "World Events". The player takes on the role of Eivor Varinsdottir (/ ˈ eɪ v ɔːr /), [7] a Viking raider, as they lead their fellow Vikings against the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Eyre (Scottish Gaelic: Eighre) is a settlement on the eastern shore of Loch Snizort Beag on the northern coast of Skye in Scotland. [1] The two Eyre standing stones (Scottish Gaelic: Sornaichean Coir' Fhinn) are situated next to Loch Eyre. [2] It is said that there was once a third stone here, although there is now no trace. [3]
The Fál (Irish:) or Lia Fáil (Irish: [ˌl̠ʲiə ˈfˠaːlʲ]; "Stone of Fál") is a stone at the Inauguration Mound (Irish: an Forrad) on the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland, which served as the coronation stone for the King of Tara and hence High King of Ireland. It is also known as the Stone of Destiny or Speaking Stone. [1]
The Isle of Skye, [a] [8] or simply Skye, [b] is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. [ Note 1 ] The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated by the Cuillin , the rocky slopes of which provide some of the most dramatic mountain scenery in the country.
Geological map of Skye Basal quartzite of the Eriboll Group from the Ord Window Durness Group dolomites forming a limestone pavement on Bheinn Shuardail Cross-bedded Jurassic sandstones of the Bearreraig Sandstone Formation near Glasnakille, Strathaird MacLeod's Tables, flat-topped hills and stepped topography from erosion of Paleocene lavas, Duirinish peninsula Mafic dyke near Broadford ...
Menhirs and other standing stones are technically orthostats although the term is used by archaeologists only to describe individual prehistoric stones that constitute part of larger structures. Common examples include the walls of chamber tombs and other megalithic monuments, and the vertical elements of the trilithons at Stonehenge .
Pobull Fhinn from the east. The second stone on the right is the highest one with a height of two meters. Pobull Fhinn (Scottish Gaelic: Poball Fhinn [ˈpʰɔpəl̪ˠ ˈiːɲ]) is a stone circle on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The name is Gaelic. The first word has been variously spelt as pobull, poball, pobul or as plural ...
The Celtic Inscribed Stones Project database records over 1,200 such inscriptions, excluding Runic ones. It maintains an online database of them. [2] They relate to other standing stones with images, such as the Pictish stones of Scotland, or abstract decoration, such as the much earlier Irish Turoe Stone and Castlestrange Stone. The Tristan ...