Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Island Of Great Bernera on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the Outer Hebrides. Great Bernera, Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh Mòr, often known just as Bernera, Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh, is the thirty fourth largest Scottish island. Great Bernera lies in Loch Roag on the north west coast of Lewis and is linked to it by a road bridge. Built in 1953, the bridge was the first pre-stressed concrete bridge in Europe. The island, under the name of Borva, was the setting for A Princess of Thule in 1873 by the Scottish novelist William Black. The island's name is Norse in origin and is derived in honour of Bjarnar, father of the Norse Chieftain of Lewis Ketil Bjarnarson, or the Flatneif. The most common name on Great Bernera is MacDonald, MacDhòmhnaill or Dòmhnallach, and these are said to be descended from a watchman of the Macaulays of Uig, who gave him the island in return for his services.
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