Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Island of Eriskay on visit to the Outer Hebrides. Eriskay, Scottish Gaelic: Èirisgeidh, from the Old Norse for " Eric's Isle ", is an island located between South Uist and Barra and is connected to South Uist by a causeway. Eriskay is traversed by a number of mountain paths and tracks, and has just a single motor road. On August 2, 1745 the small frigate le Du Teillay landed Bonnie Prince Charlie with his " seven men of Moidart " at Bonnie Prince Charlie's Bay or Traigh Leis on Eriskay to start the Forty Five Jacobite Rising. Although only a small Scottish island, Eriskay has many claims to fame that have made the island well known far beyond the Hebrides. It is associated with the traditional Hebridean song, the Eriskay Love Lilt; with the Eriskay pony and the Eriskay jersey, made without any seams. It is the real Whisky Galore island: it was just off Eriskay that the SS Politician ran aground in 1941 with its famous cargo. An important early documentary film, Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives, made by a German traveller, Werner Kissling, was set on the island.
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