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Scotland in the Dark Age c.400-1060

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General
The Dark Age
A short overview (Britannia)
Oft-invaded England
including a quiz (The About Network)

Maps
Historical Maps of Britain
Six simple but visually appealing maps show the landings of the Saxons in the fifth century and the distribution of Saxons and Britons in the following years, at Britannia Internet Magazine (Britannia)
Map of the kingdoms of Dark Age Britain
Colorful and easy-to-read map (Early British Kingdoms)
A map of Britain with the seven kingdoms
of Anglo-Saxon Britain c.449-1100 (Richard Stockton College)

Scotti and the Scots
Scotti and Scots
Classical writers used the term Scotti to describe Gaelic speakers from Ireland and western Scotland (The Dark Ages)
The ancient origins of the Scots
from Celtic beginnings to the Dunadd Kingship (David F Dale)
The Scots and the Picts
including the settlement of Argyll and Pictish saints (David F Dale)

The Romans
Sub-Roman Britain
An introduction by Christopher Snyder (ORB Encylopedia: Online essays)
The end of Roman Britain
Assessing the Anglo-Saxon invasions of the fifth century (Minnesota State University)
Dark Age Britain
prior to and after the Roman Conquest (David F. Dale)

The Picts
The Picts
A brief introduction (University of Michigan)
The Picts
A brief introduction (The Dark Ages)
The Pictish Chronicle
including an accounts of the origins of the Picts and a list of Pictish kings
Who were the Picts?
Introduce yourself to the Picts (Pictish Arts Society)
Picts and Pictish Language
(The Indo-European Database)
Discovering a kingdom of the Picts
(York University)
Grave slabs and Pictish symbols of Scotland
Many images of Pict carvings (Dark Isle)
The Pictish nation
An excellent site with links to everything on the Internet about the Picts including Pictish art
The Picts
Historical background (Lorraine MacDonald)

Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Strathclyde
Lesmahagow local history site (Lesmahagow online)
The Kingdoms of Lowland Scotland
Including maps of the area (Early British Kingdoms)

The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom
A brief history of Anglo-Saxon England
(Regia Anglorum)
The Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain
Anglo-Saxon weapons, armour and warfare (Angelcynn)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle online
Transcriptions and extensive information about this important and ancient history of Britain (Labyrinth)
Anglo-Saxon England
Articles by William Bakken on early English history include an extensive thesis on King Cnut and the English Church (The Anglo-Saxon England Ring)
Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England
c.400-900 AD (Angelcynn)
Clothing and appearance of the early Christians
Anglo-Saxons 600-800 AD. Extensive article by Ben Levick uses excerpts from primary sources to provide details about garments worn by men and women in early medieval England (Angelcynn)


Influential leaders
Æthelstan (924-40 AD)
including a genealogy (Britannia)
Aethelred the Unready
An introduction (ORB)
Edmund II, Ironside (1016 AD)
including a genealogy (Britannia)
Canute and His Sons
An introduction (ORB)
Harald I, Harefoot (1035-40 AD)
Introduction and genealogy (Britannia)
Canute II, Hardicanute (1040-42 AD)
Introduction and genealogy (Britannia)
Edward III, the Confessor (1042-66 AD)
The penultimate Anglo-Saxon king (Britannia)
Alfred the Great (871-900 AD)
including genealogy and Asser's life of Alfred (Britannia)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
on Alfred the Great (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
Alfred the Great
The Danelaw, victory at Eddington and Wedmore and the legacy of Alfred the Great (Britannia)
Bede
Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Book I (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
MacBeth's Successors
Scotland under their rule (Robert M. Gunn)
History Of The Scottish Nation
Vol 3, Chapter 12 - Malcolm Canmore and William the Conqueror (Electric Scotland)

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