Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers excavated the pieces and as they dug deeper into the pile, they found more than ...

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Constantine mac Áed (Constantine II), the grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, began his life as an exile. In 878 AD his father, Áed, had been slain by a Giric, son of Dungal, and Constantine, a young boy at ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ... at National Museums Scotland, which have ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland ... have brought the Vikings. Students could consider what different parts of the ruins used to be.

The castle was originally built in the 13th century by Alexander II of Scotland to guard the area against possible Viking invasions ... leaving Eilean Donan in ruins for hundreds of years.

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community.

Pictland was remade in a Gaelic image and the Scottish nation was ... Olaf Guthfrithsson restored Viking rule to York and Aethelstan's grand schemes lay in ruins. In 943 AD, after reigning for ...