Saturday Snapshot – Glen Etive

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Here are some more photos from our recent holiday in Scotland. They are of Glen Etive in the Highlands. We drove down a little track alongside the River Etive:

River Etive P1000071until we got to Loch Etive:

Loch Etive P1000091Loch Etive is a sea loch and is part of the Rathad Mara Project to transport timber from the forests using a mobile floating pier, now derelict:

Floating Pier Loch Etive P1000090

An interpretation board by the loch side records that Glen Etive was the home of ‘Deirdre of the Sorrows‘, a first century Pictish princess who was betrothed to Conchobar, the High King of Ulster. According to Celtic tales she fled to Scotland to Glen Etive, with her lover Naoise and his two brothers, where she spent a most idyllic and peaceful time. But promised safe conduct and hospitality by Conchobar, they reluctantly leave Etive for Ireland. It ends in tragedy because Conchobar’s promise is broken, Naoise and his brothers are murdered and Deirdre according to one tale kills her self by falling from a chariot, dashing her head against a rock. In another version she simply dies of a broken heart.

Glen Etive Int Bd P1000075For more Saturday Snapshots see Melinda’s blog West Metro Mommy Reads.

 

13 thoughts on “Saturday Snapshot – Glen Etive”

  3. I’ve never been to Scotland, but my people are from there. Something in me knows I should visit Scotland. So beautiful.

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  10. I am writing from the state of Florida and have been to Scotland once…cannot wait to go back. There is so much more there I want to see! Beautiful pictures.
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  11. I’ve only been to Edinburgh but I know I would love Scotland outside of the towns and cities. My kind of landscape, that’s for sure.

    Scenes like this remind me of The Fairies, by William Allingham – Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen…

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