Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Apprentice Pillar on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to the 15h Century Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, Britain, United Kingdom. The chapel was founded by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness of the Sinclair family, a noble family descended in part from Norman knights from the commune of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in northern France. Over the years the chapel has featured in speculative theories regarding Freemasonry and the Knights Templar. The Apprentic Pillar is an ornately carved pillar, said by legend to have been carved by an apprentice mason against his master's instructions. The master killed the apprentice on discovering what he had done and as punishment, his face was carved into the opposite pillar so that he would always have to look his apprentice's skilled work.The base of the Apprentice Pillar is carved with intertwined dragons, and the top of the pillar depicts foliage. The combination suggests some link to the Nordic legend of the Yggdrasil tree. The Chapel has been linked to a variety of other legends, particularly with the Knights Templar and the origins of the Freemasons. The Chapel's layout is said to mirror the design of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney, was said to be a hereditary Grand Master of the Scottish stonemasons, and several of his descendants served as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland
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