digitalmedievalist.net

senchus.wordpress.com

Senchus « notes on early medieval Scotland « Page 2

https://senchus.wordpress.com/page/2

Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. Newer posts →. The Over Kirkhope Stone. The burial ground may have been associated with a very early church and, although there are no visible traces of such a structure, the first element of the place-name. Website (see the link below). The stone is now at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh. The close-up of the Orans figure at the top of this blogpost is taken from an illustration in Allen and Anderson’s. Searching for Pictish gold.

senchus.wordpress.com

The Kingdom of Strathclyde « Senchus

https://senchus.wordpress.com/kingdom-of-strathclyde

Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. This page shows a list of my blogposts dealing with the realm of the Clyde Britons in its several manifestations (Damnonii/Dumnonii, Alt Clut, Ystrad Clud). Those marked HK are published at. Heart of the Kingdom. My website about early medieval Govan. Those marked SASVA are at the blog associated with my book. Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age. The rest can be found here at. The Bride of King Dyfnwal.

senchus.wordpress.com

My Books « Senchus

https://senchus.wordpress.com/my-books

Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. 8216;an approachable introduction to the written sources of early medieval Scotland and the constantly changing kingships and allegiances of the period’. 8211; Elizabeth Pierce (. The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings. Available from Amazon UK. For more information about this book click here. 8216;a valuable resource’. 8211; Jessie Denholm (. The Picts: a History. Available from Amazon UK. Available from Amazon UK. One obser...

senchus.wordpress.com

A Roman reference to Pictish tattoos « Senchus

https://senchus.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/a-roman-reference-to-pictish-tattoos

Notes on early medieval Scotland. The Kingdom of Strathclyde. A Roman reference to Pictish tattoos. Flavius Stilicho, with his wife and son, portrayed on an ivory carving of c.395 AD, now in Monza Cathedral, Italy. (photograph from. 8216;there came the legion, shield of the frontier Britons,. Check of the grim Scot,. Whose men had watched the life leave the tattoos on the dying Pict.’. But what makes these lines of verse especially fascinating is the reference to Pictish tattoos. This may have originated...

darkagehistory.blogspot.com

Dark Age History: King Arthur in Irish Pseudo-Historical Tradition - An Introduction

http://darkagehistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/king-arthur-in-irish-pseudo-historical.html

Britain and Europe, circa 400AD - 1000AD. Sunday, 21 August 2011. King Arthur in Irish Pseudo-Historical Tradition - An Introduction. Was King Arthur Irish? And then the power and strength of Britain was destroyed after him. Not only did he accomplish all this but did so at exactly the same time as King Arthur of the Britons is said to have done! With over two hundred footnotes there is plenty of information for those seeking further clues and answers to the enigma of Arthur. So was King Arthur Irish?

darkagehistory.blogspot.com

Dark Age History: February 2015

http://darkagehistory.blogspot.com/2015_02_01_archive.html

Britain and Europe, circa 400AD - 1000AD. Friday, 13 February 2015. Lost Kingdom' found in Scotland. Pottery from Africa found in a burnt-out fortress in Galloway hints at a 'lost' Dark Ages kingdom that may even have been born of an alliance between Britons and Picts. Remarkably, a Pictish carved stone at the fort's entrance shows two entwined symbols which could have been evidence of an alliance between Britons and Picts, possibly through a ‘royal’ marriage. Posted by Dane Pestano. Coroticus Rex Aloo, ...

darkagehistory.blogspot.com

Dark Age History: May 2014

http://darkagehistory.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html

Britain and Europe, circa 400AD - 1000AD. Friday, 9 May 2014. Vennicni, Feni and Donegal. Vennicni, Feni and Donegal. Of the seventh century. Adamnan himself was of the Cenel Conaill as was Columcille. The chronicle found it's way to Ulster and other places by the mid eighth century where it was continued and became various annals such as the Annals of Ulster. The first of which became an eventual source of the Welsh Annales Cambrai. After the Cenel Eohgan had taken control and made the Grianan of Ailech...

darkagehistory.blogspot.com

Dark Age History: January 2015

http://darkagehistory.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html

Britain and Europe, circa 400AD - 1000AD. Saturday, 24 January 2015. Gildas and the chronology of the Adventus Saxonum. Gildas and the chronology of the Adventus Saxonum. And most recently Christopher Gidlow. Lets examine Gildas' words then from the DEB, starting with the events just before the appeal to Aetius :. They hadn't even been invited yet! Sometimes our countrymen, sometimes the enemy, won the field; to the end that our Lord might this land try after his accustomed manner these his Israelites, w...

darkagehistory.blogspot.com

Dark Age History: September 2014

http://darkagehistory.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html

Britain and Europe, circa 400AD - 1000AD. Sunday, 7 September 2014. Of The Miracles of Cairnech Here. Here is a chapter from my book. On the early story of Mac Erca's triumphs over the Saxons, Britons, Franks and Irish etc. Following this story is the original tale from the Lebhor Bretnach - The Irish HB. Of The Miracles of Cairnech Here. Is the Irish version of the Historia Brittonum. Compiled in the eleventh century where Mac Erca's story forms part of the tale: Of the Miracles of Cairnech Here. The de...