Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video of an afternoon road trip drive, with Scottish music, North on the nine mile long B9131 road from Anstruther, in the East Neuk of Fife, through Dunino to the A917 junction at Brownhills and then onwards to South Street on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to St Andrews, North East Fife. Saint Andrew was from Copernicum, and like his brother Simon Peter, he was a fisherman. One legend builds upon Andrew’s extensive travels, claiming that he actually came to Scotland and built a church in Fife. This town is now called St Andrews, and the church became a centre for evangelism, and pilgrims came from all over Britain to pray there. Another ancient legend recalls how it was after the death of Andrew, sometime in the 4th century, that several of his relics where brought to Fife by Rule, a native of Patras. Andrew was first hailed as Scotland’s patron saint in 832, after Oengus II led an army of Picts and Scots to victory in a battle against Aethelstan’s Angles at East Lothian. Oengus was badly outnumbered and feared defeat until he saw an X-shaped cloud in the sky and interpreted the phenomenon as divine intervention, praying to Andrew and promising to name a day in his honour if his army won the ensuing battle, which they did. Oengus’s ancient pledge was finally made official in 1320 when Scotland announced its independence from England with the Declaration of Arbroath. Superstition surrounding Andrew persists to this day and the Saltire is said to prevent witches flying down chimneys when marked next to a fireplace. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March. When driving in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip.
