Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age

82 Pages·2014·2.03 MB·English

by  Tim Clarkson

STRATHCLYDE
and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by
John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
West Newington House
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Edinburgh
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ISBN: 978 1 906566 78 4
eISBN: 978 1 907909 25 2
Copyright © Tim Clarkson 2014
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CONTENTS
List of Plates
List of Maps
Genealogical Tables
1 Cumbrians and Anglo-Saxons
2 Early Contacts
3 Raiders and Settlers
4 Strathclyde and Wessex
5 Athelstan
6 King Dunmail
7 The Late Tenth Century
8 Borderlands
9 The Fall of Strathclyde
10 The Anglo-Norman Period
11 Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
LIST OF PLATES
1.Hogback gravestones in Govan Old Parish Church
2.Govan Old Parish Church
3.Dumbarton Rock
4.Bamburgh Castle
Govan in 1758: from Robert Paul’s engraving A view of the banks of
5.
the Clyde taken from York Hill
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: commemorative statue erected at
6.Tamworth Castle in 1913, showing Aethelflaed with her nephew
Athelstan
The Gosforth Cross, Cumbria: a tenth-century monument
7.
displaying Anglo-Saxon and Norse influence
8.Anglo-Saxon cross near the east wall of All Saints Church, Bakewell
Eamotum: the confluence of the rivers Eamont and Lowther near
9.
Brougham Castle
10. Lowther Church, Cumbria
11. Dunmail Raise, Cumbria
12. St John the Baptist, Chester: ruins of the medieval church
13. The Giant’s Grave, Penrith
Carham, 1018: view eastward along the River Tweed near the
14.
probable site of the battle
LIST OF MAPS
1.Early medieval Britain and Ireland
2.The North Britons in the Roman period
3.Northern Britain, sixth to eighth centuries
4.Govan in AD 900
The Solway region: Cumbric place-names of the Viking period [after
5.
Higham 1993, 181]
6.Britain in the time of Edward the Elder, c.920
7.Strathclyde and northern Northumbria in the early tenth century
8.The meeting at Eamotum, 927
9.The location of Brunanburh: five popular candidates
10. North Lancashire and the ‘conflict zone’ of 937
11. St Cathroe’s pilgrimage
12. Strathclyde and Northumbria in the late tenth century
Hogback monuments in southern Scotland / northern England and
13.
sculpture of the ‘Govan School’
14. Geographical context of the battle of Carham, 1018
15. Kingdoms and peoples, c.1050
16. Gospatric’s Writ
17. Southern Scotland and northern England in the twelfth century
18. David’s principality: ‘Cumbria’ in the Scottish kingdom, c.1120
GENEALOGICAL TABLES
Kings of Alt Clut, fifth to ninth centuries, based on the Harleian pedigree of Rhun,
son of Artgal. Names in italics are from sources outside the pedigree.
The royal dynasty of Strathclyde