Beinn Sgritheall: Mountain of Scree

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Join Jenny and Annie as they climb uphill on the West Coast of Scotland to explore the beautiful Beinn Sgritheall. We look at legends of the Glenelg brochs, Dun Telve and Dun Troddan, which reveal ancient folklore of giants, feasting women, revenge, and a very bad hair day. We adventure up the beautiful Scottish rural mountain of Beinn Sgritheall, and spend some time thinking about why hillwalking is so enthralling. This is the first episode of our new series, Radical Mountain Women, funded by the Royal Society of Literature, inspired by the writing of the Scottish Mountaineering Journal.You can support Stories of Scotland on Patreon! www.patreon.com/storiesofscotland References:Dun Telve, Dun Troddan and Dun Grugaigon Canmore, The National Record of the Historic Environment: https://canmore.org.uk/site/11798/dun-telve, https://canmore.org.uk/site/11797/dun-troddan, https://canmore.org.uk/site/11772/dun-grugaig-glenelgCaithness Broch Project: https://www.thebrochproject.co.uk/NatureScot: History of Scotland’s woodlands: https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/land-and-sea-management/managing-land/forests-and-woodlands/history-scotlands-woodlands Ordnance Survey Maps at the National Library of Scotland: https://maps.nls.uk/os/Stuart Piggott, Scotland Before History, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958Thomas Murchison, ‘Glenelg, Inverness-Shire: Notes on a Parish History,’ Transactions of the Gaelic Society for Inverness, 1942-1950William Douglas, ‘Ben Screel,’ Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, Vol. 1, Edinburgh, 1891 Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland. We are absolutely thrilled to be starting a new season for you all.
0:19.2	This season is called Radical Mountain Woman and it's an exploration of the
0:25.4	relationship between women and the environment in Scotland. We're going to be looking through the
0:31.6	portal of the Scottish Mountaineving journals from the 1890s. This is funded by the Royal Society of Literature.
0:40.3	So get your boots on, Annie, because we are going into the mountains,
0:45.3	led by the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal.
0:49.3	Are we going to have a map at least?
0:51.3	Nope, we're winging it.
0:52.3	Oh no.
0:53.3	Just kidding, that would be irresponsible, Annie.
0:56.0	And mountain safety is no joke.
0:58.8	But this is more a map of words, building the landscape around us, forming towering crags and filling deep lochs and leading us through it.
1:09.5	You're not convincing me at all that this map is going to get us from A to B successfully.
1:14.9	Jenny, I thought you would be better at this considering you do so much cartography.
1:19.5	It is my day job, yes, but I like to leave it at my desk.
1:25.2	And what are A and B but letters, Annie?
1:28.3	I think we'll be just fine. Come on.
1:31.0	Let's go back to the inception of these journals.
1:34.9	Volume 1 was published in 1891, two years after the club was started.
1:41.5	At this time, they were the leading literature for mountain writing in Scotland.
1:47.3	The journals are full of descriptions of early mountain exploration. However, they uphold a sense
1:54.4	of exclusion from the mountains through the voices that they leave out. So as we were reading
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