Famously there is only one Lake in Scotland*
The Lake of Menteith
(*actually there are a few but they're not well known)
Nobody really knows why it has this name.
On old maps it is referred to in it's Gaelic name of Loch Innis Mo Cholmaig.
The name incorporating the name of the largest island in the lake, Inchmahome.
Where there is a 13th century Augustinian priory that sheltered the young Mary Queen of Scots in the 16th century.
There's a story that it was Dutch cartographers asking for the name and getting confused by the locals calling it the "Laich o Menteith".
A 'Laich' means a low place.
Then there was the legend that I was brought up with.
Where the name came from John De Menteith who was the one who turned William Wallace over to English soldiers.
The story went that his treachery should never be forgotten and that the place bearing his name should be written in English and not Gaelic like everywhere else.
Which is a better story than a typo, don't you think?
This photo is made of 4 images stitched together.
I used a polarizer on my lens to bring out the detail in the clouds or else it'd just be grey.
Nikon D80
iso 200
28mm
ƒ/8.0
1/40
