Tingwall stone
The Tingwall stone (also called Murder stone ) is a kind of menhir ( English Standing stone ), which lies between the lakes Loch of Tingwall and Loch of Asta on the road B9074 about 1.5 km south of "Law Ting Holm", the place of Shetland Things , not far from Scalloway on Shetland in Scotland . The cuboid, broken stone is about 2.0 m high. Historians have speculated that Sinclair and his troops killed his co-regent "Malise Sparre," whose death circumstances are unknown, near Scalloway.
The name killer stone is connected to the death of Malise Sparre, Earl of Strathearn of a historical landscape in Scotland, who in 1389 or 1391 with seven of his followers in a fight with his cousin Henry Sinclair , the 1st Earl of Orkney (1345-1400 or 1401 ) is said to have been killed. The stone was erected to commemorate his death. The historical data show a Máel Ísu, 8th Earl of Strathearn (1330-1334), who died in 1350. His grandson was Malise Sparre, whose life data are hardly known.
John R. Tudor wrote in The Orkney and Shetland in 1883 ; Their Past and Present State : “Malise Sperra appears to have settled in Shetland and was killed in an argument with his cousins who appeared at the Thing in 1389. The gray granite stone near the roadside was probably erected to mark the place where it fell. "
Almost the same thing is in the diary of the Reverend John Mill Pastors of Dunrossness, Sandwick and Cunningsburgh in Shetland in 1889: "There is a stone in the parish which has been mentioned in the annals since 1329 and is considered the scene of the death of Malise Sperra."
The story is different in The New Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. XV from 1845: "In the Stromsee there are the remains of a small castle, which is said to have been inhabited by a son of the Earl of Orkney, who was later slain on the beach of Tingwall on the orders of his father."
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Coordinates: 60 ° 9 ′ 38.4 " N , 1 ° 15 ′ 32.1" W.