I wouldn’t normally add any walks less than around 6/7 miles to my total (daily dog walks up Berwick Law/along the beach don’t really feel like enough of a break from the norm). However, as this was my first trip up Traprain Law it felt like a new adventure – if a short one.
Not as steep as Berwick Law it protrudes from the landscape in a similar way and offers great views back to the coast and beyond to the Lammermuirs. And it’s got a whole lot of history including this lovely story…
In the sixth century King Loth – from where the name Lothian is derived – is said to have had his daughter lashed to a chariot and thrown over a rocky edge on the Law when she became pregnant by her cousin. She somehow survived but was put in a boat and left to drift in the Firth of Forth, eventually landing on the other side where she was rescued by St Serf. She went on to give birth to a son who became St Mungo, the founder of Glasgow, though other sources suggest that St Mungo was actually born on Traprain Law itself.
Crazy men.
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