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My name is Jamie, and this is Episode 133, the Scottcast, Part 10.

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Alright, so next week we'll be returning to the Anglo-Saxon territories and to the

troubles that the lines of Penda and Ida were causing.

But for today, we're talking about Scotland.

And to start with, we have nine praise poems that tell us of a mighty king of reggae

named Yurian who reigned in the 580s and 590s.

And Yurian was no slouch, and from the records, it appears that his kingdom stretched all

the way to the Salway, and he was also given the title of Defender of Aeon, which was Ayrshire.

So we're talking about a king who controlled an enormous stretch of land that included

territories on both sides of the wall.

Now his name itself, Yurian, is a rather glamorous name and was probably intended to enhance

his prestige.

That's because Yurian is a derivation of Erbgen, which means Born of the City, which some

have taken to mean that he was probably born in Carlisle, as his power base appears

to have been centered there, though it is possible that he was born in New York, either

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