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Place must be 18 or over. Next month, on September the 18th, the people of Scotland will vote to decide whether to stay part of the United Kingdom or whether to form an independent

nation. Even those who decide to stay within the Union hold a very deep sense of Scottish

identity. Of course the concepts of England, Scotland and Wales have not existed forever. They can

be traced back to the centuries, following the breakup of the Roman Empire, a period of high levels of migration, and crystallized in the 10th century, when in 937 the King of England fought the Norse Irish King of Dublin, the King of the Scots, plus the armies of smaller northern British kingdoms.

Welcome to a history of Europe, key battles.

The Battle of Brunenburg, part one, of three.

Since I want to cover quite a lot in the story of early Britain, I will split this narrative into three sections.

The first will be about the centuries immediately after the fall of the Roman Empire.

In the second, I will talk about the coming of the Vikings.

And in the third, I will describe the Battle of Brunnenberg and the events that

led up to it. Today we think of Great Britain in terms of England, Scotland and Wales.

But this modern map must be put out of mind if one wishes to understand the island's previous make-up.

Before and during Roman Britain, there was no such thing as England since the Anglo-Saxons had not yet arrived.

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