Bonnie Scotland-Scenic Glens-Vol 1 - Glen Etive Munros - Advert free Video!

The old Gaelic phrase "Land of mountains, glens and heroes" aptly describes Scotland. This video is 'Bonnie Scotland, Scenic Glens - Volume One' and features perhaps Scotland's most scenic Glen and the Munro summits therein - Glen Etive . . .

"Fair shines the sun on Etive's blue waves;
Lora's swift flood is the voice of the past;
From Uisneach's castle built on the rock
The song of three brothers sounds on the breeze.

Brave were the heroes who fought in these glens -
Sennachies sang their mighty adventures;
Now, there is silence where once was a song;
Shielings are grass-grown and peat fires are cold"

The sinuous arm of Loch Etive winds its way far inland between the wilds of Appin and Benderloch on the north and the rocky solitudes of the Blackmount Forest Munros and the trekker-filled West Highland Way to the south. Although it perhaps looks more like a Norwegian fjord than a Scottish loch, Loch Etive is nearly landlocked, but for a narrow neck not far from Oban that permits its outlet to the Atlantic, resulting in it being a sea loch.

Loch Etive is also famous for the part it plays in the creation of the Falls of Lora where it joins with Loch Linnhe. The natural rock barrier below the surface of Loch Etive creates, on ebb tides with Loch Linnhe when it drops faster creating a 'waterfall' or cataract out of Loch Etive. On flood tides, the opposite happens, with sea water raging into Loch Etive. This natural phenomenon can be seen from close to the main road at Connel Ferry on the road to Oban.

The video contains initial footage across Glen Etive to the 1078m Ben Starav, the 994m 'Peak of the Treasure' - Sgor na h-Ulaidh, the 959m 'Finlay's Hill' - Beinn Fhionnlaidh, the 937m 'The Bastard' (as named by the shepherds) - Beinn Sgulaird, the 1150m 'Peak of the Mountains' - Bidean nam Bian beside Stob Coire Sgreamhach and of course, the more distant Buachailles - all from the slopes of the 1044m 'Peak of the Corrie of the Scotsman' - Stob Coir'an Albannaich. Apologies for any spelling mistakes in the video footage - too late to change them now.

"There came three white doves out of the South
Flying over the sea,
And drops of honey were in their mouth
From the hive of the honey-bee.

"O Naois, son of Uisnech, hear,
What was shown in a dream to me.

I saw three grey hawks out of the south
Come flying over the sea,
And the red red drops they bare in their mouth
They were dearer than life to me".

A landscape never really yields up its secrets of beauty and pathos unless you are aware of the distant history of the folklore as well as that of the men and women who lived there. And so Glen Etive is the storied land of Deidre.

"Naoise and Ardan and Ainle the heroes,
The green land of Lorne their battle ground;
Long shall their story ring down the ages -
The love of Deirdre was drenched with pain."

The story of Deidre and the three sons of Uisneach begins one day when she saw a calf lying dead on the snow, with a raven swooping, ready to feed. She beckoned that should there be a man whose hair was as black as that raven, whose skin was as white as that snow, and whose cheeks were as red as that blood, then she could love him. She was informed that there was such a man - Naoise, one of the three sons of Uisneach, and from that day onwards Deirdre dreamed of Naoise. . .

"Come over hither, Naois, my love,
Let Arden close to Allen lie;
If the dead had any sense to feel.
Ye would have made a place for Deirdre".

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[roddymck]

Many thanks, your comments are really appreciated. If you get the chance have a look at this similar video on my channel :

Glen Etive (2004 Pt 1) - off the WEST HIGHLAND WAY

Regards from Scotland, Roddy.

[Veralucy]

Really nice track, tune and text!

Congrats for all of your great travels!

All the best, Roddy!