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Somerled - And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
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Somerled - And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland (Paperback, 2nd Edition)
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Loot Price R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
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Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been
variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful
king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval
Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much more
complex figure of major prominence in twelfth-century Scotland and
of truly landmark significance in the long history of the Gael. In
this book individual chapters investigate his emergence in the
forefront of the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of the western seaboard,
his part in Gaeldom's challenge to the Canmore kings of Scots, his
war on the Manx king of the Isles, his importance for the church on
Iona, and his extraordinary invasion of the Clyde which was cut
short by his violent death at Renfrew in 1164. Perhaps most
impressive is the book's demonstration of how almost everything
that is known of or has been claimed for Somerled reflects the same
characteristic fusion of Norse and Celt which binds the cultural
roots of Gaeldom. It is this recognition which has led its author
to his proposal of Somerled's wider historical importance as the
personality who most represents the first fully-fledged emergence
of the medieval Celtic-Scandinavian cultural province from which is
directly descended the Gaelic Scotland of today.
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