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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyI. Scotland at the Start: A Kingdom of Ghosts When Áed took the throne in 877 AD, he wasn’t inheriting a kingdom; he was inheriting a graveyard. His brother Constantine had been killed by Vikings, and the economy was “scoured” by a decade of war. Political stability was non-existent. The “unrest” mentioned in the Annals…
When Donald I died in April 862 the throne passed to his nephew Constantine I, son of Kenneth MacAlpin (Kenneth I). The peace that of Donald I’s reign ended during Constantine’s, Viking activity increased dramatically in Britain and Ireland. Constantine’s reign in Scotland was one of the most violent and unstable periods in early Scottish…
Like Kenneth I, there is little records on his brother Donald I. Pre 1100 almost everything was transmitted orally and very little was written down. When Edward I of England’s armies came north in the late 1200’s and invaded Scotland they siezed and destoryed much of Scotland’s early archives, so much of what would have…
The Scotland Post 