Lochinvar

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Lochinvar is the name of about 1000 times 500 acre lake in Scotland, situated in the county of Dumfries and Galloway 5 km northeast of the city of St. John's Town of Dalry. From the Lochinvar Lochinvar, the Burn, which opens to the south in the Water of Ken feeds.

The name comes from the Lochinvar Scottish Gaelic language in which he would read hole on barr. It means lake on the mountain top. The Lochinvar was eponymous for the aristocratic title of Baron of Lochinvar and Laird of Lochinvar.

Current usage

In the 1960s, the lake was dammed in the wake of a hydropower project; there is also a small power station. With the rise of the water level, the small island in the middle of Lochinvar flooded so that the ruin of standing there former stronghold of the Gordons of Lochinvar is no longer visible.

At the fort today reminds a little of the stones of the ruined pyramid built the following inscription bears: " Lochinvar. Water level raised in 1968. An island that is now under water, was the site of a ruin. Their stones were used to build this stone pyramid " ( Lochinvar. Level raised in 1968. Iceland now submerged at what the site of a ruin. Stones from Which have been used to build this cairn ).

Young Lochinvar as a literary figure

Lochinvar or Young Lochinvar is the title character of a poem from the epic Marmion by Sir Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 between a winless Scottish invasion army and the English Crown under James IV, whose personality found its way into the British- English slang has. The poem represents the hero of the poem in typical Scott'scher narrative form is: Medieval motifs mingle in a romantic and ironic distancing.

The name has remained as an idiomatic phrase in British English for " careless hero " or " knight in shining armor " alive and thus literary history as the " Orlando Furioso " (Orlando Furioso ) comparable.