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The Legend of the Gulls
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Legend has it that a pair
of gulls fly ceaselessly above Lochindaal, on the shores of which lies the
Bowmore Distillery.
When the Scots spread from
their Celtic homeland to create the Kingdom of Dalriada–in–Alban, the
Pictish and Brythonic tribes who already occupied the lands resisted
fiercely. Much blood was spilt as war raged between them and the incomers.
Legend has it that the
daughter of a Pictish King fell in love with a captured Scottish warrior
and helped him escape. Together they fled westwards to the Isles. As they
rowed towards the young warrior’s home on the shores of Lochindaal, the
sea loch which bites into the heart of Islay, a terrible storm lashed
their boat, sending it crashing against the rocks.
The young Scot’s clansmen
found only splintered wreckage of the boat and no trace of the lovers –
but a pair of white gulls soared and swooped together across the Loch,
settling neither on the western nor the eastern shore, as if torn between
the two.
The legend endures, and
today, before a storm, the Bowmore Distillery echoes to the haunting cry
of a pair of gulls.
Legend Tin Box -
Released 1995
(Limited
Edition)
This Limited Edition Tin illustrates
an artist's interpretation of this Legend of Romance.
Aged 8 Years Tin
Box - Released
1995
(Italian
market only)
This Limited Edition Tin illustrates
an artist's interpretation of this Legend of Romance.
Legend Tin Box -
Released
1995
750ml 40%alc./vol. (USA)
This Limited Edition Tin illustrates
an artist's interpretation of this Legend of Romance.
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