Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of MacKinnon's Cave on the coast on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Isle Of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. There is a story that twelve men of Clan Fingan set out to explore Mackinnon's Cave, headed by a piper. Another party walked on the surface, keeping pace with the music. When the party in the cave reached the extreme limit, the fact was to be signalled by a bar of music, and the party above was to mark the spot. After travelling some distance the explorers encountered a fairy woman, who made an attack and slew the party one by one, save the piper, whose music so charmed her that she offered to spare him so long as he did not cease to play on the pipes. The piper retraced his steps to the entrance of the cave, closely followed by the fairy. She agreed that when he saw the light, he could go in peace. He staggered along in the dark, almost overcome by exhaustion, but bravely pouring out his breath, in hopes of reaching his haven. The notes became harsh and discordant, the drones began to groan and the chantes to screech. In spite of the struggle, the contest was too great. The music ceased, and then the fairy attacked and slew him. The harsh notes of the pipe warned the party over the cave that some calamity had befallen the explorers, and unsheathing their swords they rushed to the rescue. Just as they gained the entrance the piper finished his last bar. They found the mangled body of the piper beyond which were the bodies of his companions. Mull, Scottish Gaelic An t-Eilean Muileach, has a long coastline, and its climate is moderated by the Gulf Stream. Mull is the second largest island of the Inner Hebrides, after Isle of Skye, and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the council area of Argyll and Bute. Mull is the fourth largest island in both Scotland and the United Kingdom. The Isle of Mull has probably been inhabited since shortly after the end of the last Ice Age, around 11,000 years ago. In the 6th century AD, Irish migrants invaded Mull and the surrounding coast and established the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata. The kingdom was divided into a number of regions, each controlled by a different kinship group one of these, the Cenél Loairn, controlled Mull and the adjacent mainland to the east. Dál Riata was a springboard for the Christianisation of the mainland; the pivotal point was in AD 563, when Columba, an Irish missionary, arrived on the island of Iona, just off the southwest point of Mull, and founded a monastery there from which to start evangelising the local population. In the 9th century, Viking invasions led to the destruction of Dál Riata and its replacement by the Norse Kingdom of the Isles, which became part of the kingdom of Norway following Norwegian unification around 872. The Kingdom of the Isles was much more extensive than Dál Riata, encompassing also the Outer Hebrides and Skye. The island kingdom became known as the Suðreyjar, meaning southern isles in Old Norse. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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