River Ness On Visit To Inverness In The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the River Ness, on visit to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The river is the origin of the name of Inverness which is from Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Nis, meaning " Mouth of the Ness ". The northern section of the Caledonian Canal passes partly through the River Ness and partly alongside it. The first claimed sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in the River Ness in AD 565, when Saint Columba is said to have banished a "water monster" back into the river after it tried to attack one of his disciples who was swimming across the river. When Saint Columba visited King Bridei I of Pictland at his house on the River Ness, he met a wizard named Broichan who had an Irish slave girl that he refused to release even though Columba pleaded with him. Columba went out of Bridei's house and picked up a white pebble from the river. He said that the pebble would be used to heal many sick people in Pictland, and that Broichan was suffering for his sins at that very moment. After he had finished speaking, two messengers came to tell them that Broichan had a seizure and they wanted Columba to help them. Columba gave them the stone and said to dip it in water to give to Broichan, if he agreed to release the slave-girl. He agreed to do so, and the stone was put in water and it floated on it; the wizard drank from the water and was healed. This stone was kept by King Bridei in the royal treasury for the rest of his life, and anyone who came there for healing would be given water with the stone floating in it, and they would be healed. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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