While there are no specific relations of Viking activities on Jura, there are various oral stories that concern 'lost battles', particularly around Inver and Ardfin. "The Hebrides were assaulted by the Vikings at Iona in 795, and perhaps there was no more apt place to strike first, as Columba had tried to unify the peoples of the islands and mainlands. Here is one opinion from an interesting website on the history of Jura: I never looked into it but it would be interesting to see if all of the '10,000 Islands' off the coast of southwest Florida have been given names given a lot of them are transient mangrove swamps. They also ignore that sparsely and unpopulated areas probably weren't given a name at all. The researchers ignore that many of the isles could have been renamed in more modern times as new settlers, absence of maps documenting the names, and events like the highland clearances cleared the isles of people that knew the names and history of the isles. ignoring that the land were heavily grazed by sheep when checking into the origin of the name of the Isle of Ewe Lewis as pre-Celtic or Norsk ignoring the anglicised Welsh Lewis surname and that many lands were feudally ownedĬ. a Greek name is listed but Jura as possible French origin is ignored despite the presence of the French in Scotland and absence of the Greeksī. This is an interesting page but as you read the list of derivations of island names you can tell they are guessing and in some cases outright inventing origins of those names.Ī. Keep in mind the Jura Mountains on the French-Swiss border and the long French presence in England and Scotland not to mention Norse presence in France. There are a couple of hypothetic suggestions on Wikipedia listed too with hints that it may or may not be an old Norse name. I'm not familiar with old Norse only a smattering of Norwegian and Icelandic but Jura sounds French to me.
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