Origin of Phrases - V
The Virgin Islands
Legend has it that somewhere around 238 A.D., St. Ursula took 11,000 Nuns from Britain and France on a march to Rome to protest oppression in Britain. On the way back, in a village along the Rhine, they were all massacred by the Huns. It was for these 11,000 virgins that Christopher Columbus named the Virgin Islands.
Chris D. sent a note saying, "The reason he named the Virgin Islands 'after the 11,000 virgin' was because, when he first saw them he said 'They looked like a fat virgin lying on her back'."