Talk:Hinba

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A fact from Hinba appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 27 December 2007.

One item I expected to find in this article was an explanation for why the name "Hinba" was forgotten. I could speculate about the reasons (e.g., massive depopulation of the islands during the Viking period, which resulted in new settlers with new place-names), but I expect there are historians with better credentials than I who could be cited in an answer to this question. -- llywrch (talk) 16:53, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

I imagine it is a combination of the gap in written records in the centuries after Adomnan, the Viking incursions that obliterated much of the early Christian heritage of the Hebrides, and the lack of archaeological evidence that the timber buildings of Hinba have gifted to posterity. I don't know off-hand of a specific reference to verify this view however. Ben MacDui^Talk/Walk 14:32, 29 December 2007 (UTC)