I put a post up about a week ago asking for your requests for videos and got a lot for this wee story - here’s a video I made last year on the fairy bridge on the Isle of Skye You can see the Fairy flag at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye. The castle has been home to Clan MacLeod for the last 800 years. Throughout those turbulent centuries, this fortress has guarded the clan’s most valuable treasure. It might look like just a faded, battered bit of cloth with a few strange markings but this is the famous Fairy Flag of Dunvegan. Passed down through the generations, nobody can be sure where it came from and that mystery has turned into legend. There was once a young MacLeod chieftain who met a woman so beautiful, intelligent and articulate that he fell madly in love with her. She was a Fairy Princess and if she wanted to settle down with a mere mortal then they must ask her father for permission first. The Fairy King was sympathetic to the couple’s situation, but he had his concerns. If his immortal daughter spent a human lifetime with MacLeod, she would never recover once he inevitably died. Instead, the Fairy King granted them one year and a day married together. When their time was up, he would arrive at the bridge by Dunvegan Castle to bring his daughter back home. By the end of their blissful year together, a son and heir had been born. The child would need to remain behind in Dunvegan Castle but before she left, the Fairy Princess swaddled the boy in a strange shawl. That shawl was turned into the Fairy Flag of Dunvegan and has protected the MacLeods ever since. So far, it has been waved in the heat of battle, said to have cured a herd of sick cattle and extinguished a fire threatening to destroy Dunvegan Castle. The flag is proudly on display inside the castle but it’s said that the fragile material only has a single miracle left to give. source:hiddenscotland.co #andythehighlander #highlandertours #scotland #scottish #scottishhistory #outlander #kilt #meninkilts #visitscotland #scottishhighlands #highlander #jacobite #greatkilt #isleofskye #clanmacleod #fairy #fairybridge