Becoming Dál Riata: A Critical Evaluation of the Emergence of an Early Medieval Insular Polity.
Much valuable work has been done in recent decades on deconstructing and reconstructing the foundation myth and subsequent history of the Dál Riata. The story of the western portion of northern Britain being settled by three sons of Erc from the northern coast of Ireland at some point around ad 500...
| Publicado en: | Scottish Historical Review Vol. 103; no. 1; pp. 1 - 77 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Apr2024
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