The Isle of Skye has a rich heritage and the table topped mountains of Healabhal Bheag and Healabhal Mor to the West of Dunvegan, the spiritual home of the Clan Macleod, certainly have a few tales to tell. Depending on which one you want to believe that is!
Back in the days when Saint Columba was travelling around the Hebrides seeking converts to Christanity, he stopped off and preached near to Dunvegan. He had not been offered a bed by any locals and legend has it that devine interentation saw the two Healabhal’s lose their jagged tops for flat tops enabling the Saint to have somewhere flat to sleep on.
The other legend is that the Clan Macleod Chief was at a banquet held by King James V in Edinburgh and he boasted that he had a even grander table and candles than all that existed in the Central Belt. Some people from Edinburgh not believing this possible travelled to Dunvegan, where the chief led them to the top of Healabhal Mor where the summit was ringed with clansmen holding flaming torches and a giant table was on the summit, laid out with a feast fit for a king.
Personally the second legend appeals more to me, as I love eating good food and I’m a Macleod.
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