Scandinavian Scotland was the period from the 8th to the 15th centuries during which Vikings and Norse settlers, mainly Norwegians and to a lesser extent...
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Norse–Gaels (redirect from Gaelic-Scandinavian)
Norse-Irish, Hiberno-Norse or Hiberno-Scandinavian for those in Ireland, and Norse-Scots or Scoto-Norse for those in Scotland. The Norse–Gaels originated in...
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Viking activity in the British Isles (category Scandinavian Scotland)
of the Isles Scandinavian Scotland Orkney Earldom of Orkney History of Shetland Orkneyinga saga Viking Age Category:Scandinavian Scotland Norman conquest...
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Edinburgh History of Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-74-861234-5. OL 7963996M. Woolf, Alex, ed. (2009). Scandinavian Scotland – Twenty Years...
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in Scotland" in Brink, Stefan (ed) (2008) The Viking World (Abingdon. Routledge) ISBN 0-415-33315-6 Crawford, Barbara E. (1987) Scandinavian Scotland (Leicester...
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Norn language (category Scandinavian Scotland)
coast of mainland Scotland and in Caithness in the far north of the Scottish mainland. After Orkney and Shetland were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468–69...
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Edinburgh: The Scottish Society for Northern Studies, pp. 117–142, ISBN 0-9505994-7-6 Crawford, Barbara (1987), Scandinavian Scotland, Leicester: Leicester...
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Harald Fairhair (category Scandinavian Scotland)
Cambridge University Press. pp. 934–935. Crawford, Barbara E. (1987). Scandinavian Scotland. Leicester University Press. ISBN 0718511972. Viking Empires by...
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Scandinavia (redirect from Scandinavian civilization)
refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes a part of northern Finland)...
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diplomacy, economy and business. Scotland also has historical and cultural ties with the Scandinavian countries. Scottish Government policy advocates for...
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Earldom of Orkney (category Scandinavian Scotland)
Viking Age by Viking raiders and settlers from Scandinavia (see Scandinavian Scotland). In the ninth and tenth centuries it covered the Northern Isles...
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The Scandinavian Peninsula is located in Northern Europe, and roughly comprises the mainlands of Sweden, Norway and the northwestern area of Finland. The...
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The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the Kingdom of Scotland. According to tradition, Kenneth I MacAlpin (Cináed mac Ailpín) was the founder...
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Torsa (category Tidal islands of Scotland)
Sunart to the Sound of Jura Marine Protected Area. Luing cattle Scandinavian Scotland Sgeir a' Bodaich - possibly "skerry of the old man" or "skerry of...
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This is a list of islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain. Also included are various other related tables and...
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resolved by the mid-seventh century. After the reconversion of Scandinavian Scotland in the tenth century, Christianity under papal authority was the...
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island group in the Inner Hebrides, lying immediately off the west coast of Scotland, north of Jura and southwest of Oban. The main islands are Seil, Easdale...
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Kingdom of England provides occasional insight into events in Scotland. While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 10th century Britain, their value as...
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Jura (/ˈdʒʊərə/ JOOR-ə; Scottish Gaelic: Diùra) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, adjacent to and northeast of Islay. With an area of 36...
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Gallowglass (category Scandinavian Scotland)
who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of Ireland and Scotland between the mid 13th century and late 16th century. It originally applied...
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Saga of Erik the Red (category Scandinavian Scotland)
A History of Icelandic Literature, Histories of Scandinavian Literature 5, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Lincoln, Nebraska / London: University...
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Scotland during the Roman Empire refers to the protohistorical period during which the Roman Empire interacted within the area of modern Scotland. Despite...
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Shetland (redirect from Shetland (islands council area of Scotland))
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region...
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Máel Brigte of Moray (category Scandinavian Scotland)
Drumochter in the south to the Scandinavian held lands of Caithness and Sutherland in the north. Oxford Companion to Scottish History. pp. 428–430. Thomson...
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North Germanic languages (redirect from Scandinavian dialect)
Germanic languages is used in comparative linguistics, whereas the term Scandinavian languages appears in studies of the modern standard languages and the...
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Hogback (sculpture) (category Scandinavian Scotland)
Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century northern England and south-west Scotland. Singular hogbacks were found...
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Uí Ímair (category Scandinavian Scotland)
much of the Irish Sea region, the Kingdom of Dublin, the western coast of Scotland, including the Hebrides and some part of Northern England, from the mid...
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Ragnhildis Olafsdottir (category Scandinavian Scotland)
(2005), p. 33 Moore, Arthur W. (1906). "The Connexion between Scotland and Man". The Scottish Historical Review. 3 (12): 399. ISSN 0036-9241. JSTOR 25517762...
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This is a list of places in Scotland called Papa or similar, which are so named after the Papar, monks from the Early Historic Period or from their connection...
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Hebrides (redirect from Scottish Hebrides)
dominated much of the Irish Sea region and western Scotland at this time were of joint Gaelic and Scandinavian origin. When Somerled wrested the southern Inner...
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