Scandinavian Scotland

extinct Germanic language spoken in the Northern Isles of Scotland

King of Norway

carved chess pieces discovered on the Isle of Lewis

comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD

King of Norway

Icelandic saga about the Norse exploration of North America

937 important victory for King Athelstan of England

Scandinavian-Scottish literary work

1262-66 territorial conflict between the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland

exploration, settlement, and raids performed by Norse population

1263 battle of the Scottish-Norwegian War

The Norse–Gaels (; ; ; , 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture. They emerged in the Viking Age, when Vikings who settled in Ireland and in Scotland became Gaelicised and intermarried with Gaels. The Norse–Gaels dominated much of the Irish Sea and Scottish Sea regions from the 9th to 12th centuries. They founded the Kingdom of the Isles (which included the Hebrides and the Isle of Man), the Kingdom of Dublin, the Lordship of Galloway (which is named after them), and briefly ruled the Kingdom of York (939–944 AD). The most powerful Norse–Gaelic dynasty w

thumb|Fifteenth-century sculpted figures of Gallowglass as depicted upon the apparent effigy of Felim O'Connor (d. 1265)|Feidhlimidh Ó Conchobhair, King of Connacht and father of [[Áed na nGall, victor of the Battle of Connacht.]]

Norwegian, then Scottish, noble title over the Northern Isles and northern Scotland

aspect of Norsemen expansion

royal Norse dynasty

official status of the Orkney Islands

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8th- to 15th-century historical period

noble family

Viking warrior

340px|right|thumb|A carving of a birlinn from a sixteenth-century tombstone in MacDufie's Chapel, Oronsay, as engraved in 1772. The birlinn () or West Highland galley was a wooden vessel propelled by sail and oar, used extensively in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland from the Middle Ages on. Variants of the name in English and Lowland Scots include "berlin" and "birling". The Gaelic term may derive from the Norse byrðingr (ship of boards), a type of cargo vessel. It has been suggested that a local design lineage might also be traceable to vessels similar to the Broighter-type boat (f

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In the modern Gaelic languages, ' () signifies Scandinavia or, more specifically, Norway. As such it is cognate with the Welsh name for Scandinavia, ' (). In both old Gaelic and old Welsh, such names literally mean 'land of lakes' or 'land of swamps'.

Hebridean viking

church in Egilsay, UK

church on Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK