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Magnus Magnusson
Scotland: The Story of a Nation
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SCOTLAND THE STORY OF A NATION MAGNUS MAGNUSSON
Copyright
Praise
Contents
List of Maps
Страница 7
Introduction
Chapter 1
IN THE BEGINNING
The first people in Scotland (c.7000 BC)
Skara Brae, Orkney (3100–2600 BC)
Calanais (Isle of Lewis): 3000–2000 BC
Maes Howe on Orkney (3000 BC)
The Broch of Mousa
Crannogs
Chapter 2
THE ROMANS IN SCOTLAND
Chapter 3
PICTS, SCOTS, BRITONS, ANGLES AND OTHERS
The ‘Picts’
The Gododdin
The Angles
The Battle of Dunnichen (Nechtansmere): 685
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The Saltire of Scotland
The Britons
The ‘Scots’
Dunadd
The coming of Christianity
The vikings
Kenneth mac Alpin (800–58): the union of the Picts and the Scots
The origin myth of ‘the Scots’
Constantin II
What happened to the Picts?
Chapter 4
MACBETH (r.1040–57)
Birnam Wood and Dunsinane
Shakespeare and Scott
Chapter 5
MALCOLM CANMORE AND ST MARGARET
Queen Margaret, the Saint
The border issue
The death of Malcolm
Aftermath
Chapter 6
DAVID I (r.1124–53)
David the king
The Battle of the Standard (Northallerton, 1138)
Chapter 7
WILLIAM THE LION (r.1165–1214)
The legacy of the Lion
Chapter 8
THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY: ALEXANDERS II AND III
The inauguration of Alexander III
The ‘Battle’ of Largs (2 October 1263)
The Norway connection
The death of Alexander III
Chapter 9
JOHN BALLIOL – ‘TOOM TABARD’
The Maid of Norway
The Competitors
The ‘Great Cause’
‘Toom Tabard’
Chapter 10
WILLIAM WALLACE
‘William Wallace raised his head’
The Battle of Stirling Bridge (11 September 1297)
The Battle of Falkirk (22 July 1298)
After Falkirk
Capture and death
Chapter 11
ROBERT BRUCE (r.1306–29)
He who would be king
Bruce and the spider
Glen Trool
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