Skye | Scotland's Isle of Mist and Celtic Legends 🏴
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I will do all of them and more. Should you ever find yourself in Ohio and need something I can provide. Its yours my friend. Hail to the Gods! Hail to the folk and skål my brother. Farmviking
My family and I were in Scotlamd in 2022! Absolutely loved it! Spend several days on Isle of Skye! I agree, a truly beautiful place on this earth. Missed the fairy Glenn, but the hike along the pools was one of my favorites.
Great video. Beautiful footage. Are you a McDonald, or just feel a connection to them?
The ad in the middle is not the greatest place for it!
Faerie were small people like Jyoti Amge(search images) who began living together as outcasts of society to survive, but they were literally being hunted by animals(wolves) with nobody wanting to help them.. They came across Isle of Skye and sought sanctuary where they were protected by the MacLeods who invited them to live on the Isle of Skye in safety from the beasts of the bushes.. The garment of a flag was a gesture & likely the wishes that came true were co-incidents.. Leprechaun Luck....
My family originated on harris and skye. This is so unbelievably cool to see. Cant wait for the premiere.
My family came from the finest jails in Paris. And the settlement along the North Sea in Germany
What premier? Of what
@@Timetravel1111 it was the premiere of his trip to the Aisle of Skye. It’s out now
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My family also from Harris. Just returned from my bucket list trip to Scotland last week. That 2+ mile Fairy Pool walk was tough on this 78 yr old dude with a bad knee, especially the steep incline back to the parking lot. Wasn't sure I was going to make it, I refer to it as the "Trail of Tears", lol, but it was worth every step!
Anytime we have the privilege of touching the land of our ancestors, with correct intention on our part, we leave that place wiser and changed. I have a strong connection to spiral symbolism, and when you were showing the stone spirals, I was feeling a strong spiritual tug in that direction. This was a beautiful video Jacob! Thank you! You cracked me up at the end when you were talking about using your dad voice to get people to stop picking up the rocks :) We all age into that "get off my lawn" person :) Fricken kids! LOL!
That portrait does look just like you, that’s so cool
This place is absolutely amazing.
Thank you Jacob 😀👍🏼
Skye is so beautiful. 🤩 With what you have said, I have a sneaking suspicion that my family could have come from here. I'm part Scottish and Norwegian. English, Welsh and Irish. I'm well represented 😅🎉 . Part of my family settled in North Carolina. This is all I know. I'm Pagan as well. I will be subscribing to you. 😊 I just had a birthday on the eighteenth and turned 69 years old. Hopefully in my next life time I can go to Scotland. 😊
Oh my goodness. Beautiful!!! Thank you Jacob!
Outstanding video man!
You can make tea from stinging nettle, it has alot of health benefits like reducing inflammation, blood sugar control, helps against gout and much more.
I swear by stinging nettle tea. It's a really effective and natural remedy for inflammation.
I hate people who mess with spiritual and historical sights and artifacts. I was in scouting so I’ve seen a ton sights that have been vandalized and know that’s it very rude and disrespectful
Beautiful stories ♥ what we meed to connect to the past
Such a beautiful, and mysterious land...I live in the US, and I have never been there, or anywhere over that way, but I feel a connection in my soul. I'm sharing this video with my daughter because I named her Skye, and I know she will appreciate it🙂
I was there last September. I know I’ve barely scratched the surface of all the amazing ancient sites there are to see, so the longing to return is very great. The feeling there is so surreal. I feel at peace and at home surrounded by the beauty and history of Skye. I truly can’t wait to go back.
I immediately saw that Mjolnir you're wearing as soon as you said Viking. Love this!
magic place
A beautiful place I am actually named after :) My middle name.
I agree with you about the potentially Pictish goddess. It sure makes sense.
My ancestral line through my dad's side is "MacLeod of Lewis" and its pronounced sounding like a cloud,not loyd. Olaf the Black,one of the last Norse kings.
Excellent! Your video is absolutely magical and you tell the stories in such a delightful and engaging way. I live in Tamworth in England but really love Scotland. I visited Skye many years ago just for an afternoon whilst on holiday in Aviemore. That was with my wife, son and step-son. Since then, my step-son has died at the tender age of 17 in the year 2001. Then, last year, I spent a whole week on Skye with my wife at a place called Kensaleyre. The weather was superb every day and we are now so much in love with Skye, we are going back again next year for another stay in the same place. We tried to pack in as much as possible but still have much to see. We did manage a visit to both Armadale and Dunvegan Castle but, unfortunately, were not able to get to the Fairy Pools because, as we set off on the walk, my wife was taken ill with an epileptic seizure. We are not able to do as much walking these days as we would like, but watching videos like yours makes it possible to see some of the places that we maybe could not otherwise see. Keep up the good work.
Beautiful landscape. Great vid as usual bro. Keep it up and be safe!
Thank you 👍
Thank you for this! I'm a MacDonald as well! So nice to have my history touched on.
absolutely beautiful video. it's lovely to see you travelling and enjoying yourself over the british isles.
Great chatting with you in the premiere 👍
Loved this video. My family is from Clan MacQueen of Skye and I've lived in the Carolinas all my life. Thank you for such a wonderful telling of Skye from such a unique angle.
I love watching your journey my man.
Thank you for your travels and the history/mythology you provide with each one! Watching your channel is a welcomed break from all the other noise I get on social media platforms. Keep up the hard work and safe travels Jacob.
Thank you 🍻
Fantastic video - my son lived in Skye for 6 months last year on his travels, loved it! Also, as someone who broke their ankle hiking last year, thanks so much for helping that woman on your trip!
I just became a pagen born again for65 yrs since 4 I have seen the real light. I am a master herbalist in Canada good luck with your adventure and have a great forever
My Ancestor, Neil McLeod, left the village of Geary on Skye and arrived in S. Carolina in 1820.The Fairy Flag is the remnant as young MacLeods going to war would take a snippet with them for luck over the centuries. Are you familiar with the tale of MacLeod's Table?. Oddly enough I am Native American as well and practice a mix of Paganism. My Miwok Grandmother said to NEVER whistle at night.
Such an ethereal place. Thank you for showing us. We may never make it there. My father's clan is Ross. It too is in Pictish land. It was wonderful to see a place my ancestors may have known very well. Thank you again!
Glad I could capture some of the essence of this place for you!
20:55 respect 🙏
It is common in Celtic mythology for men to learn their feats of arms from women. Finn mac Chuill also learned from two women in the woods. This tradition was kept alive even into modern times with Countess Markievicz teaching the use of guns to young men fighting against British rule in the period just before the Irish Revolution of the early 20th century. She was an excellent marksman (sic) herself. Google pictures of her in her battle dress. Awesome!
Great video! Thank you so much! :) What great information, and wonderful filming, thank you!
❤❤❤So beautiful! Thank you for sharing this beautiful story
Anyone interested in the America/Scottish connection should look up Flora MacDonald, an island girl who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape to Skye when he was on the run from the English.
Excellent video. Thank you so much for the tour and all of your efforts producing it for others to watch and enjoy this magical place.
I’m working on a channel for the native and cultural beliefs of Louisiana and how the pagan beliefs formed New Orleans and this whole area of the country. Along with the history of Louisiana. And how it’s still pagan no matter how it’s been transformed.
As a fellow Cajun countrymen I find your comment both intriguing and exciting. Please let me know when you post said video. Thanks
@@shannonknighten7868 will do. Would you happen to have another way I could contact you? Cause trying to go back and find a comment months later is kind of a hassle.
Greetings Jacob! Just wished to say how much I appreciate your videos. With the state of media I feel as though it continues to distance us from what truly matters and what we should be doing as an individual to learn and grow as such. Although small yet grand at the same time the impact of media like this help some of the lost reconnect with what they are yet to discover with in themselves and may encourage them to take the steps necessary in their own lives to become greater. It is just up to the people now to agree and grow and disagree and move on. Both come hand in hand with nearly all especially with things like this. For it is listening to things unknown to us (Which most disagree with off the bat) that we are able to branch out. Just a thank you and a small word of appreciation. I hope more people return to their pagan roots and learn the wisdom that follow.
Thank you so much, Jacob. I saw for the first time a place sacred to my Ancestors (clan, et alia & me)! Your presentations are Awesome! K*🦊
Thank you all the work you're putting into these documentations. I'm finding them helpful in my deep questions
Wonderful, thank you. My mother left Glasgow with her family in the 1930's for New Zealand and I grew up surrounded by very Scottish uncles and aunts and cousins. I would love to visit Scotland one day and Skye has always held a fascination for me, not least because of that beautiful song we know and love . . . 😀
This was an amazing watch! What a lucky turkey you are, getting to go to all these places! Oh and by the way, Kaia and I both agree there is no other job for you in your greybeard years than to stand on that rock and shout at bad tourists.
I just assumed I would be an old wizard in the woods of the hall land that people tell folk tales to their children about 😂 I will throw acorns at everyone and murmur old norse chants from the bushes then run away
@@TheWisdomOfOdin Sounds accurate. “Never leave your home without a weapon! HYAH! *scampers away*”
This touches my soul. I am a Celt, and the island of Skye is beautiful.
This place has always been on my places to visit list. Thank you for giving us an awesome little tour with some amazing insights!
This video is absolutely beautiful and captures Skye is such a magical wonderful way. So glad you used your dad voice to, people need to be educated in history and to respect it. You have paid to visit a site so why disrespect it! Madness. You did Skye proud
Thank you! Will always pull out the dad voice to protect history!
Good, someone's gotta. I'll pull out the mum voice to do my bit 👍🏼
Starting my day watching this feels like self care for my soul🤌 So so happy you covered these locations! Exploring these areas last year was truly an awakening for me and I feel more in tune with my roots. Thank you for helping me find my way in pagan history and practices.
"Skye is not a place, but an intoxication" -From Otta Swires book
@@TheWisdomOfOdin Very true words
Such a beautiful place! I hope I will see it for myself one day! Thank you for all your hard work! I always learn something new 💚
Thank you 🍀
Very Beautiful
Thank you for joining in during the premiere! Good luck on your KZhead journeys.
Absolutely beautiful place! Wonderful video Jacob 😊❤
Thank you!
So beautiful, it has this drawing in effect , i heard so much about this place from my scottish grandmother. She also made it sound very magical. Thank you for doing this video and stay safe and well.
Love your work! Thank you!
Well done video! Visiting Scotland, pagan and you have NC roots- I subscribed. They say that many Scots, upon seeing the NC Mountains, were reminded of their home in the highlands and decided to settle there. Also because it was safer from other hostile settlers who despised them for being Scottish. Many Highland Games still take place in NC and are packed year after year. The more one studies the language and culture of Scotland, you can see how the rural and isolating areas of North Carolina preserved it even today. In areas of the Outer Banks and the Mountains, locals continue to speak in a dialect very closely related to their Celtic roots from hundreds of years ago. Fascinating stuff.
7:45 yes! You said what I was thinking! I was engrossed and then as you mentioned the interesting presence I felt so strongly how much I love this channel BECAUSE you are a practicing pagan. It adds much more depth to the content and is why most of us are here following you! Such an awesome video mate thank you so much for all this work. If you ever find yourself heading all the way down to New Zealand for some reason I'll gladly help you out in anyway I can :) (The weather on skye just looks like our weather lol New zealand is also known in Maori as "aoteroa" which means "land of the long white cloud") but.....I call it land of the long white rip off because shit's expensive here >_
I absolutely love listening to you. Your videos are so enthralling thank you so much 😊
I love the mythic references; they illuminate emotional attachment to the land. Great presentation.
Honestly this sounds great. I'm looking forward to it :) !
Awesome to see the isle. It's a beautiful place that I'd love to see. Part of my grandmothers family the McDonald's are from there. Hugh Mcdonald the 4th descendant of James Ian Mor Macdonald of Skye is my 4th great grandfather. My father's line may have visited here too since we are placed in the hebrides and galloway. Ruth (allen)Tucker - grandmother William valentine Allen 1859 James fontain allen 1822 James's mother Rachel Mcdaniel 1789 Hugh B Mcdonald IV 1757 Hugh Mcdonald Jr 1720 Sir Hugh Mcdonald III 1680 Hugh Archibald Macdonald of Glenmore 1638 Sir James 'Mor' Macdonald of sleat 2nd Baronet 1605 Sir Donald 'Gorm Og' Macdonald of Sleat 1st Baronet 1575 Archibald Cleirich Macdonald of Sleat 1552 Donald Gormson Macdonald 1522 Donald Gorm Macdonald 5th of sleat 1500 Donald 'Gruamach' Macdonald 4th of sleat 1506 Donald 'Gallach' Macdonald 3rd of sleat 1430 Hugh Macdonald 1st of Sleat 1436 Alexander Macdonald 9th lord of the isles, 12th earl of Ross 1398 Donald Macdonald of Harlaw 8th lord of the isles 1364 Eoin Carrach Macdomhnaill (John Macdonald) 7th lord of the isles 1326 Angus oģ Macdomhnaill (Macdonald) lord of the isles 1272 Aonghas Mor Mac Domhnaill lord of islay 1249 Donald lord of isles between 1159 to 1219 Ragnall Mac Somhairle lord of the isles 1141 Somhairle, Ri Innse Gall (Somerled) king of isles between 1115 Gillebride Mac Gille Adomnan 1085 Giolla Adhamnan 1065 Solamh (Solomon) Meargach (Echmarcach) mac Ragnaill 1010 Ranald Ranaldsson Ranald Ivarsson 974 Imar (Ivar) 2nd of Waterford 945 Ragnall Mac Bárid Ua ímair. died 921-942 Bárid Mac ímair died 881 Ímar (Ivar the boneless) died 873
Amazing video
One of best vids! Absolutetly honor the way you incorporate your spirituality in each moment and each endeavor, like the prayer that is breath.
Thank you! So happy you enjoyed 😊
Thank you for this Jacob and also for the patreons!
Skye is one of my favorite places to go when we visit family in Scotland. Great video explaining the myths and legends. Thank you
Amazing. Incredible.
Loved your video. Best video I’ve seen on Skye.
I think it is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. Thank you so much for going, your video and the stories. I enjoyed all......and I could feel the energy and ancestral longing from Washington State, US.
Great timing for me to see this video as I'll be visiting Scotland in a matter of weeks and the Isle of Skye is on the itinerary! I'm very excited to experience this spirit of this place! Thank you for sharing the history and legends - always fascinating! And, I would love to see you as Gandolf high atop the mountain yelling down at the bad tourists!
You seem like so many people to focus on the MacDonalds as lords of the Isles. You should research the MacDougalls (dhu gael - dark gael/foreigner) kings of the isles long before the MacDonalds came to promenance. Eldest son of the mighty Somerled. I recommend R Andrew Mcdonald - the sea kings as a book to find out more, great videos though
Beautiful! Thank you 🧡
Glad you like it!
Also NC girl here. You are offering amazing visuals and historical content! Love the passion and diversity! Just found your Isle of Skye video. Soooo beautiful, mystical. I have an ancient ancestral queen there. Born Galloway, married Johnston. Also ancestors from War of Roses families. Binging your channel now! You’re the first to mention the Doggerland tsunami event, impact 😊
Thank you Jacob for another beautiful video! I love hearing of myths and lengends. The Isle of Sky is on my bucket list, more so now that I have watched this video. I do not understand rude, dishonest people who feel entitled to touch, destroy or take things from historic sights or any sight for that matter. Thank you for reprimanding them! Too bad there isn't a way to zap them!! Thank you for your very insightful videos, I enjoy everyone of them!
I'm so, so happy the algorithm God's suggested one of your videos to me last week. Your channel is what I've been looking for for a really long time, but never found. I live in Canada but am from the England, and your most recent videos have massively helped with the mild but constant homesickness I feel. Liked and subscribed :)
I thank the algorithm gods as well! 😂 Glad I was able to capture a piece of your homeland ❤️
Where abouts in the England are you from, if you don't mind me asking?
Very nice these are a gem. Jacob's ladder climbing to the nestle of magic
Great video! Maybe my new favorite. I’m sure you’re aware, but stinging nettle has a lot of uses. Keep up the great work!
As a local, few pointers on pronunciation. Scottish Gaelic is pronounced more relaxed, not Gaylic rather Ga-lick. The a is flat, and the word is pounced without the focus on AY. Macleod is also pronounced with a Mac-Cloud. Other than that, very interesting video, the story of the Great War goddess is not common and it was nice to hear someone else talk about it.
As I am rereading The Mists of Avalon, I can't help but see Avalon in Skye. I am a Morris, though more Welsh and Irish than Scottish, I feel the pull to Scotland like no other place. Should I ever make it there, I may never leave. Be blessed, and thank you for this video. 🧚♀️✨️🌟
What a very amasing view . And the storry was on the same time. Same time was waikings litelbit leddjent Derek . Same time wheen thay travels a round the world every were . 🙂❤❤❤❤
Wonderful video, Jacob! Your videography was of the landscape really captured the spirit of the place!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed :)!
What a beautiful video! Thank you for for protecting the fairy ring while you were there. I love your retirement plan! 😂❤ We went to the Isle of Skye in 2019 and it was magical, you can just feel the mystery and spirituality of this gorgeous place.
What a great video! Thank you so much for making it
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved your amazing journey.on the Isle.of sky my grand father and father lived on the Isle of Bute and were involved in the scottish wool imdustry they then moved to stoke on trent and were involved in the making of the fine bone china thank you once again gillian fay reid just to tell you l live now in South Africa and we have a suburb here in Pretoria called Fairy glen 🧚♂️🧚♀️
Thank you for this video. My family came from Skye. My mother’s siblings each looked like different nationalities. All blue eyed. We settled in Cape Breton Nova Scotia.
Very beautiful, thank you. I would be the same! if I saw people kicking or picking up the sacred stones in the faerie glen ..be respectful of the land doesn’t take much. Love your videos so informative.
Really wish such a prominent place had some form of signage with at least so basic guidelines to it. :(
Took a cruise and went to Skye. The place is magical. I'm not as healthy as I was so aeeing this comes from you. Too bad we don't have an easy relationship with the fae. Thank you.
midway through the video I had to tell my stinging nettle story. So, I was surveying some land and we had to "shoot" a line though bunch of stinging nettle. I yelled through the 6 ft patch "hey! watch out for the stinging nettle" I hear in response "what! singing metal" then "ouch!, hey that hurts!". forever I will hear singing metal in place of stinging nettle
I found this video interesting and informative. My Scottish family clan is Gunn and have only started looking into my paternal genealogy which comes from Scotland and Sweden. I can understand your feeling of belonging because I have that too, the more look into my family history the more I feel that connection to the ancient world.
Hi. My family goes back directly to the first 5 MacLeod (pronounced Ma Cloud) chiefs to Col Donald Macleod of St Kilda etc. We’re lucky to have a lot of knowledge and heirlooms from our ancestors. You’d probably really like St Kilda of you can visit. It was known for people with ‘second sight’. My great + grandmother was interviewed about it back in the 1700-1800’s and it’s really very interesting. There’s a book about it called Second Sight.
There is a book called Ravens & Black Rain: The Story of Highland Second Sight. Recommend.
Thank you. I appreciate a lot
Only three minutes in, is that Portree behind you in background? Scorrybreac (park/trail) to your left? Mothers maiden name is from MacNichol/MacNeaicail. Wife and I got to go there last year, and i spent some time at the monument to the Clan there. def will be watching rest of video, just the scenery took me back. Ready to go back again!
I'm only partway through and already hooked! I've gone out to Stornoway but not yet to Skye. I'm writing a short story woven through with Scots mythology and you've just provided the emotional and plot-driven high point for me! Thanks for such an inspiring approach. My people are Scots and I feel that tug with potency. I love that you took the time to make an offering at Scáthach's well at Dún Scáith! I'm referencing that kind of mythical act of reverence in my own story now. What a gift that is crossing time and space! Subscribing now, obviously, lol. 🐉🙏
Scathach figures prominently in my UF series, and it's no accident my last book started on the Isle of Skye. I was able to visit it last year, and plan to return.
Such a great video,,,just subscribed, and now to binge watch your channel, cheers from P.E.I. Canada
This was so interesting - thank you for the info!
My father’s people came from the Isle of Skye to settle in the state of Georgia, USA. So interesting to actually see this video.
My family also came to North Carolina around that time from Scotland. Though I'm still working with a genealogist to work my line back into Scotland. I hope soon I can go "home" and be able to visit places my ancestors once lived
Nice to see more videos about my home ❤
You should read the Reverand Robert Kirk's book called The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies, and was written in the 17th Century and gives a lot of information on the Other World of Fairies and Elves.
Thank you for this. I'm in NC and several of my family lines came from Scotland.
Outstanding video!
You forgot to mention the amount of them that immigrated to Canada... Nova Scotia literally means New Scotland in Latin, for good reason.
Great video Jacob!
Thank you!
That sounds like a top-notch retirement plan. It's taking "get off my lawn" to a whole new level. Plus, robes are very comfortable.
"Get off me stones!"
@@TheWisdomOfOdin 😂😂