From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 /
In the 780s northern Britain was dominated by two great kingdoms; Pictavia, centred in north-eastern Scotland and Northumbria which straddled the modern Anglo-Scottish border. Within a hundred years both of these kingdoms had been thrown into chaos by the onslaught of the Vikings and within two hund...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | New Edinburgh history of Scotland ;
v. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Land and people : northern Britain in the eighth century
- The coming of the Vikings
- The Scaldingi and the transformation of Northumbria
- Last days of the Pictish Kingdom (839-89)
- The grandsons of Cinaed and the grandsons of Ímar
- The later tenth century : a turmoil of warring princes
- The fall of the house of Alpín and the Moray question
- Scandinavian Scotland
- Pictavia to Albania.