The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler

Volume 4 the medieval world volume 4 the medieval world.

Episode 44, the First War of Scottish Independence. I'm going to. Earlier in the volume we told the story of the Picts who were a collection of

peoples with similar cultures that were predominantly in the lands of modern Scotland during the first millennium.

History forgets the Picts during the ninth century as their story stops with no evidence of their existence afterwards.

A king of the Gaelic kingdom of Dalryada called Kenneth Macalpin

somehow became the king of a previously unknown kingdom called Alapah.

The inhabitants of Dalryada were known in the Latin world as Scotty, and it seems clear that

there must have been a unification of the two

cultures the Scotty and the Picty that led to the kingdom of Alapah which was

the origin of the country of Scotland, very much named after the

Scottish people who had actually migrated to Scotland from the island of Ireland.

Even with the from the island of Ireland.

Even with the merging of the two cultures, the new kingdom was surrounded by potential enemies.

Britons were the Celtic language speakingspeaking peoples of Strathclyde to the southwest.

Angles were the Germanic migrants to the island of Great Britain in the lands of Lothian to the southeast.

Vikings would also be an enemy from the sea that Kenneth McAlpin and his

successors would have to invest a lot of energy into defending their territory against.

Vikings would land in Ireland and also become a menace to the new Scottish kingdom.

While the origins of a Scottish kingdom was emerging on the north of the island,

so was an English kingdom emerging in the south.

The highly ambitious English king Ethelstan invaded Alapah in the 10th century

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