Norse–Gaels - Wikipedia
The Norse–Gaels (Old Irish: Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Scottish Gaelic: Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. They emerged in the Viking Age, when Vikings who settled in Ireland and in Scotland became Gaelicised and intermarried with Gaels.
The Vikings in Scotland - Vikingeskibsmuseet
The Vikings were probably one of the most important influences in Scotland. Sailing west across the open waters from Norway, their initial aim was to pillage and plunder and their first point of contact would have been the Shetland and Orkney in the Northern Isles.
Viking Sites in Scotland: 5 Areas with Nordic History
2023年1月23日 · Discover the best Viking Sites in Scotland, from Jarlshof to Wyre, Orkney and more, includes interactive map of Scotland's Viking ruins. The Vikings settled extensively across Scotland, and left a number of intricate dwellings, elaborate …
The last battle of the Vikings - BBC News
2012年12月14日 · It was the battle which led to the end of Viking influence over Scotland, when a terrifying armada from Norway bore down on the Ayrshire town of Largs 750 years ago. At the beginning of the...
Kingdom of the Isles - Wikipedia
The Kingdom of the Isles, also known as Sodor was a Norse-Gaelic kingdom comprising the Isle of Man, the Hebrides and the islands of the Clyde from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. The islands were known to the Norsemen as the Suðreyjar, or "Southern Isles" as distinct from the Norðreyjar or Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland.
The Viking Age in Scotland: Studies in Scottish Scandinavian
The Viking Age in Scotland reviews two decades of research that have taken place since the last archaeological survey of the Vikings in Scotland, published in 1...
The Viking Age in Scotland: Studies in Scottish Scandinavian ...
2023年1月18日 · Deriving from a research meeting held at the University of Glasgow in December 2018, this compendium of linked papers covers recent research on the Vikings in what is now called Scotland, from their arrival in the latter half of the eighth century onward until the political supremacy of the Scottish kingdom in the 1400s.
What have the Vikings ever done for us? - BBC
Vikings were peoples from areas of Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, and Norway - who planted crops in spring and raided towns overseas in summer. The Viking Age - when they were most active in...
Why the Vikings never left Scotland - BBC
2022年6月5日 · Vikings conquered many of Scotland's islands as well as the mainland, in the 8th and 9th Centuries. They came, they conquered, they left, or so the story seemed to go. Now historians are...
Vikings in Scotland: An Archaeological Survey on JSTOR
This book provides a full overview of the archaeology of the Vikings in Scotland, incorporating many results from the recent period of intense fieldwork and exc...