The ‘Great Shoe’ Awaits Him….
‘Walking up the steep incline I ponder on our future. Will the new Lord of the Isles be a fair leader…..fair to all the people… or will he carry on in the ways of his predecessors and take our young men off to war in the hope of gaining new islands and realms?
The nobility of the Isles await our ascension onto the rock. It is a revered place and people have walked in our footsteps for generations. Dunadd we call it today, and although many have come to pay their respects to our new Lord few will tell,of the rituals that will make him our leader.
The ‘Great Shoe’ awaits him. He is worried…. As he should be. We wish him to become our leader and the ‘Lord of All Isles’. He wishes to become the king of Scotland……. None of this can happen if his foot is not accepted by the ‘Shoe’.
It is nothing more than a natural indentation in the rock atop Dunadd, and yet it is everything. Our great Lords foot must be acceptable to this rock or we will have to deny him our leadership for evermore, and then we must find another.
Walking up through the small gorge and onto the flat top of the mountain I can sense the anticipation….the worry… and the expectation.
What will happen today ?’
To travel is to learn, to experience….. and to understand!