North Coast And Beaches On History Visit To Isle Of Lewis Outer Hebrides Of Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the North coast and beaches on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to the Isle of Lewis, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Leòdhais, in the Outer Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. Lewis has mostly sandy beaches backed by dunes and machair on the Atlantic west coast. In the 9th century AD, the Vikings began to settle on Lewis, after years of raiding from the sea. The Norse invaders intermarried with local people and abandoned their pagan beliefs. Lewis became part of the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles, an offshoot of Norway. The Lewis chessmen, found on the island in 1831, date from the time of Viking rule. The people were called the Norse Gaels. Lewis, and the rest of the Western Isles, became part of Scotland once more in 1266: under the Treaty of Perth it was ceded by the Kingdom of Norway. Under Scottish rule, the Lordship of the Isles emerged as the most important power in north-western Scotland by the 14th century. The Lords of the Isles were based on Islay, but controlled all of the Hebrides. Following the 1745 rebellion, and Prince Charles Edward Stewart's flight to France, the use of Scottish Gaelic was discouraged, rents were demanded in cash rather than kind, and the wearing of folk dress was made illegal. Emigration to the New World increasingly became an escape for those who could afford it during the latter half of the century. In 1844 Lewis was bought by Sir James Matheson, co-founder of Jardine Matheson, but subsequent famine and changing land use forced vast numbers off their lands, and increased again the flood of emigrants. Paradoxically, those who remained became ever more congested and impoverished, as large tracts of arable land were set aside for sheep, deer-stalking or grouse shooting. Agitation for land resettlement became acute on Lewis during the economic slump of the 1880s, with several land raids, in common with Skye, Uist and Tiree; this quietened down as the island economy recovered. @tourscotland #shorts #scotland #coast #beaches All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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