15 - A Viking Kingdom in Scotland?
Viking Age Podcast
Viking Age Podcast
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2016
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode we try to answer a simple question: While some groups of Vikingar were busy raiding monasteries and fighting pitched battles in Ireland throughout the first half of the ninth century, what was going on to the North in Scotland? In other words, what did the early Viking Age look like in Scotland?
The answer to this question is much more complex than it first seems, as we confront a lack of evidence and conflicting information. Along the way to answering this question we'll meet the Picts, the Gaels of Dal Riata and explore what happened as Western Norwegians began to settle the North of Scotland.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Viking Age podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My name is Lee and this is episode 15 of Viking Kingdom in Scotland. |
| 0:10.0 | Now as you are probably aware by now, this is a community-supported podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | We don't have advertising partners and we don't have corporate sponsors. |
| 0:21.7 | And that means that it is our listeners, and that means you, who help us keep this project going. |
| 0:29.4 | There are a bunch of ways that you can help us out, from helping to pay for research materials, |
| 0:35.2 | to helping us grow the listenership of this podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | So to learn more about how you can help us out, you can stick around to the end of this |
| 0:43.5 | episode, or visit the website at vikingagepodcast.com. |
| 0:49.7 | All right, now on to the history. |
| 0:53.8 | So, this is normally where I would give you a quick recap of All right, now on to the history. |
| 0:54.1 | So this is normally where I would give you a quick recap |
| 0:58.2 | of where we're at in the story, |
| 1:00.2 | and then intro the topic of today's episode. |
| 1:04.0 | But this morning, and maybe it's just all the moving in |
| 1:07.5 | I've been doing lately, but I'm feeling a little bit emotional. So instead of all |
| 1:13.3 | that dry summary, let's start today's episode with a poem. The wind is fierce tonight. It |
| 1:20.2 | tosses the sea's white mane. I do not fear the coursing of a quiet sea by the fierce |
| 1:26.3 | warriors of Lflane. |
| 1:28.3 | What? Not exactly what you were expecting? |
| 1:31.3 | Well, this poem, which was written by an anonymous Irish monk sometime in the eight hundreds, |
| 1:38.3 | well, maybe not full of millennial angst, is fascinating in its own right. Contained within it is a sincere |
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